The Descent of the Messiah — Page 36
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH the other, but when it came to this Ummah, it was given the tidings of thirty Dajjals! There is also the well-known prophecy that the scholars of this Ummah will become like the Jews, and it is obvious that so far millions of people have apostatised and abandoned the reli- gion of Islam. Are we to believe that God was not happy with this level of misguidance and that He will not be satisfied until He has Himself sent a Dajjal from within this Ummah at the turn of the century? What a blessed Ummah that has been fa- voured with such bounties! Then, even though the believers wore out their noses prostrating and praying for the destruction of this Dajjal, and millions of prayers were offered and schemes were made for his destruction, God still does not listen to them and turns away from them. Contrarily, the Dajjal has been mak- ing constant progress for the past thirty years and is spreading throughout the world like heavenly light. All this would seem to prove that this Ummah is extremely unlucky and that God is determined to destroy it. It is such a target of Divine wrath that while, on the one hand, it has been placed under the power of the Dajjal, on the other, there is supposedly no sign of the true Messiah and Mahdi in heaven or on earth. No matter how you wail and scream, these two lost ones do not even answer to say if they are alive or dead or where they are. The appointed time foretold by the Prophets has come and gone, and the Ummah has been consumed by the Christian faith-yet neither has God shown mercy, nor have the hearts of the Mahdi and the Messiah been moved. Some ignorant ones say, "No doubt that the death of the Messiah, son of Mary, is proven from the Quran, and it is clear from Sūrah Nūr and Sūrah Fātihah etc. that all the Khulafa' of this Ummah will be from within it. We admit that the Christian faith has stirred considerable mischief, and that such a calamity 36