Tadhkirah — Page 798
798 [Badr, vol. 1, no. 38, December 8, 1905, p. 2 and al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 43, December 10, 1905, p. 1] Translation: [Arabic] The end of your appointed term is approaching and We shall not leave any trace of things that may be a cause of humiliation for you. Very little remains of the term appointed by God for you and We shall remove and eliminate all objections—and shall permit nothing of them to remain—that might be intended to humiliate you. [al-Wa s iyyat, p. 2, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 20, pp. 301–302] The phrase: means that no mention of anything humiliating shall be left behind. This revelation has a great glad tiding that: We shall fulfil the ultimate purpose of your coming. [al- H akam, December 10, 1905, p. 2] The Promised Messiah [as] said: Taking these phrases together, the Divine purpose appears clearly to be that when the call comes one would imagine that certain purposes remain unfulfilled. That is why the revelation contains the assurance that those will be completed by God Himself. The Promised Messiah [as] added: Most of the People think mistakenly that everything should be completed by the commissioned one himself. They entertain high hopes and wish that commissioned one should do every thing in the lifetime. The thought also passed through the minds of the Companions of the Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, that the time had not yet arrived for him to depart. The claim was that he had been raised as the Messenger to the whole of mankind, but a large part of Arabia had not yet believed. But all these purposes are fulfilled by God Almighty gradually so that