Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 138
138 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 Why does Webb curse the people of America, he should curse his own heart. He did not pay full attention to our Movement, rather, he went back from India uttering abuse. In my view, Abdullah Quilliam is far better than him for he has established a community of Muslims. The learned [Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan] Amrohi submitted: At the time when Webb had intended to visit Qadian, Hudūr had prophesied that he will not come here and will turn back. Moreover, he did not attain the objective for which he had turned back. Accordingly, he was regretful after returning. (At the time of Asr) Tabligh to the People of the West The Promised Messiahas came to the mosque before the Aşr Prayer. Addressing Maulawi Muhammad 'Ali, he said that:¹ 1. From Badr: The Promised Messiahas called Maulawi Muhammad Ali and said to him: I desire that a book be written in English to discharge the responsibil- ity of tabligh [conveying the message of Islam] to the people of Europe and America,and this task is assigned to you. The reason that Islam does not spread in these countries nowadays, and even if someone does become a Muslim, he remains in a very weak state, is that those peo- ple are not aware of the essential reality of Islam and neither has its essential reality been presented to them. It is the right of these people that the true Islam that God Almighty has manifested to me be shown to them. The distinctive features that God Almighty has placed in this [Ahmadiyya] Movement must be made apparent to them and the chain of communications and discourses with God Almighty should be placed before them, and all those things with which the honour of Islam in this age is associated should be collected together. All those