Some Hidden Pearls — Page 85
"What a time of joy would it be for you when there would appear among you the Messiah, your Imam, from amongst yourselves!". But we must remember that every work of God, at the commencement, is only like a seed, which people look upon as insignificant, of no account at all; and they hold it to ridicule and scorn. The small seed however, begins to grow slowly, becoming a big tree in time, firm on its roots, of which under the outspreading and prosperous branches entire nations take shelter and comfort. Look at the beginning of the mission of Jesus of. Nazareth; it was disappointingly weak and frail in the beginning. But now we find that those who claim to believe in him have overwhelmed the whole world, like a flood. Or take the beginning of the. Greatest of Prophets, Muhammad of Arabia himself. This noblest and sublimest Leader of mankind we find walking in the streets of Mecca, in utter helplessness, the proud Quraish holding him to scorn and 85