What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 72
( 72 ) should have no messenger, no guide from heaven, no one to call them back to the old faith and· lead them out of the darkness and degradation into which they have falUm. Are we to say that the beneficence , of God which brought grace and guidance to the followers of earlier prophets was to be denied to the followers of the Holy Prophet ? No. The old beneficence, the old. grace and guidance should come manifold to the followers· of the Prophet. There is nothing more certain and u n e q u i v o c a I than that both the Quran and the Hadith promise ·thai whenever the followers of the Holy Prophet fall into evil, they will have Someone to guide them out of it. This promise relates especially to our time. Ours is the time of the Dajjal (the anti- Christ), of the at. Scendancy of Christianity and of the apparent defeat of Islam and the enslavement of :Muslims to the