The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 126
126 Essence of Islam-V and humiliation. The word of God has never re- mained, nor will it ever remain, unfulfilled. He says: كَتَبَ اللهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَ رُسُلِي 37 It means that God has ordained from the beginning and has declared it to be His law and His practice, that He and His Messengers 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, rather I have come in the name of the Noble Prophets the Seal of 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 Prophetsa, so will it prove to be true in my case. Do these people not no- tice that at the time when these Maulavīs and their camp followers had launched a campaign of rejection and vilification against me, there was not a single per- son in my Bai'at, and all I had were a few friends who could be counted on fingertips. But now, by the grace of God, the number of those who are in my Bai'at has reached nearly seventy thousand. This has not come about due to any effort on my part, it is in fact the wind blowing from heaven that has made them rush towards me. Let these people think for themselves, how they strived to destroy this Jama'at and how they used all kinds of deceit and went to the extent of giv- ing information to the authorities and appearing before courts as witnesses in falsely instituted murder cases, and thus incited the Muslims against me. And 37 Al-Mujādalah, 58:22 [Publisher]