The Descent of the Messiah — Page 5
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَاغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي That is, God has ordained from the beginning and has declared it to be His law and His practice, that He and His Mes- sengers shall always prevail. Since I am His Messenger who has been sent by Him, though without any new shariah, or any new claim or any new name, and have appeared in the name of the Noble Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets, and through him and as his manifestation, I therefore proclaim that just as this verse has been proven true from the time of Adam to the time of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, so shall it come true for me. Do these people not notice that at the time when the clerics and their cohorts launched a campaign of rejection and vilification against me, there was not a single per- son who had pledged allegiance to me and my friends could be counted on the fingers? Now, by the grace of God, the number of those who have pledged allegiance to me has reached almost seventy thousand. This has not occurred through any effort on my part; in fact, it is the breeze blowing from Heaven that has caused them to hasten towards me. Now, let my opponents reflect on how they strived to destroy this Movement and how they used all kinds of deceit against me. They went so far as to give false information to the authorities, to appear in courts as witnesses in falsely instituted murder cases, to incite the Muslims against me, to publish thousands of posters and leaflets, to issue edicts of heresy and death, and to form com- 1 "Allah has decreed: 'Most surely I will prevail, I and My Messengers. " Al- Mujādalah, 58:22 [Publisher] 2 The footnote given here by the author, along with its sub-footnotes, has been given at the end of the book as Footnote 1 on page 297. [Publisher] 5