The Will — Page 5
H H A A D D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD as 5 God’s Word informs me that many calamities will occur and many disasters will descend on the earth—some during my lifetime and some after I have gone. And He will promote and advance this Jam a ‘at [The Ahmadiyya Community] to the full. A part of it will happen at my hands, and some after me. This is the Way of God Almighty. And ever since He created man on earth He has always been demonstrating this Divine prac- tice. He helps His Prophets as and Messengers as and grants them success and predominance, as He says: 1 َبَتَك ُهّٰللا َّنَبِلْغَاَل اَنَا َو ْيِلُسُر And by predominance is meant that as Messengers as and Prophets as desire that God’s H ujjat 2 is established in the world and no one is able to oppose it, so, in turn, does God demonstrate with power- ful signs their truthfulness as well as the truth they wish to spread in the world. He lets them sow the seed of it [the truth], but He does not let it come to full fruition at their hands. Rather He causes them to die at such time as apparently forebodes a kind of failure and thereby provides an opportunity for the opponents to laugh at, ridicule, taunt, and reproach the Prophets as. And after they have had their fill of ridicule and reproach, He reveals yet another dimension of His Might and creates such means by which the objectives which had to some extent remained incomplete are fully realized. Thus He manifests two kinds of Power. (1) First He shows the 1. (Translation) God has decreed that He and His Prophets shall prevail [ S u rah al-Muj a dalah, 58:22]. — Author 2. Literally Argument. Here it means Will, Purpose of God. [Publisher]