The Promised Messiah, peace be upon him, was raised in the Latter Days to bring about the victory of Islam over all faiths, to defeat the Dajjal [Antichrist], and to cultivate true piety and understanding among the Muslims. As he had repeatedly pointed out, his struggle is not of the sword, but of the pen. To achieve his objectives, the Promised Messiah^(as) engaged in many debates and wrote more than ninety books and published numerous proclamations. Although poetry, in and of itself, was not the objective of the Promis...