True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 122
[ 122 ] sacre one, two or a thousand Ahmadis. We know that God declares them to be among the living. They have no power to change this. Conversely, if God declares somebody dead, you do not have the power to bring him to life. Failure is your destiny. The Ahmad i s will continue to live and you will never be able to bring Jesus a s back to life. The Ahmadiyya Community will not perish by your massacring even thousands of us. Bring one man—Jesus—to life and that would be the end of the Jam a ‘at. This argument has persisted for a long time. Your own ulema have been lamenting over your miserable plight for more than a hun- dred years saying that no semblance of Islam has been left in you, but your defiance and disobedience continues unabated. What is Jesus as doing in the heavens? Why doesn’t he descend to rescue you? Instead of indulging in the genocide of the Ahmad i s, bring Jesus as back down alive. Should you succeed, I give you my word that I, with all my Jam a ‘at, will renounce our faith and join you instantly. We are the ones who have been imbibed with the spirit of obe- dience. We will fight in front of Jesus, behind him, and all around him. We are the ones who say: ‘We believe and tes- tify to its truth. ’ But I tell you that if your Jesus—the presumed Jesus whom you present— did hypothetically ascend to the heavens and does come back to earth alive, you will surely oppose him.