Future of Ahmadiyyat
Below are a series of quotations of Hazrat Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad Qādiānī (A.S), the Promised Messiah and Imām Mahdī, on the future of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at. The Anti Ahmadiyya would like to see this Community perish while God has other plans as shown by these quotations.
Appeal to Give up Vilification and Abuse
Purely by way of advice, and for the sake of Allāh, I tell the opposing clerics and their soul mates, that abuse and vilification is not the way of decency. If this be your disposition, then so be it. But if you consider me false in my claim, you also have the option to come together in your mosques and pray to God for my ruin, or you can do the same individually. If I am false in my claim, your prayers are bound to be heard. Indeed, you have been praying against me already. But remember, even if you continue to pray thus until your tongues are bruised, and you go on bewailing in your prostrations until your noses are rubbed out, and your tears wipe out your eyelashes, and the weeping reduces your vision, and your brains are so affected that you begin to suffer from epilepsy or melancholia, still your prayers will not be heard; for I have come from God, and anyone who curses me will himself be afflicted with such a curse, though he may not be aware of it. He who enters into a prayer duel with me and supplicates that the one among us who is false may die in the lifetime of the other, will come to the same end which overtook Ghulām Dastgīr of Qasūr….
No one can die on earth unless his death is decreed in heaven. My soul is inspired with the same truth with which the soul of Abrahamas was inspired. I have a relationship with God like that of Abrahamas. My secret is known to God Alone. My opponents ruin themselves in vain. I am not the plant that can be uprooted by their hands. If their predecessors and their successors, and their living and their dead, were all to come together and pray for my ruin, my God would convert their prayers into curses and would fling them back upon them. Do you not see that hundreds of wise people from among you continue to join my Jamā‘at? There is uproar in heaven and God’s angels are pulling pure hearts in our direction. Can man obstruct this Movement that is proceeding in heaven? Try to obstruct it if you think you have the strength. Use all the cunning and deceit that the opponents of the prophets employed against them in the past, and leave nothing untried. Use your utmost strength. Call down ruin till you arrive at the door of death. Then see what harm you can bring upon us. Heavenly signs are descending like rain, but the unfortunate ones continue to raise objections from afar. What remedy can we provide to the hearts which have been sealed up. Lord, have mercy on this ummah, Amīn Announced by: Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad From Qādiān, 29 December, 1900 [Arba‘īn No.4, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 17, Pages 471-473]
And:
O Ye Maulavīs and custodians of shrines who oppose me, the contentions between us have exceeded all limits. My Community is much smaller in number than yours, and at the moment does not exceed four or five thousand. Nevertheless, be sure that this tree has been planted by the Hand of God Who will not let it be destroyed. He will not be pleased till He carries it to perfection. He will water it and enclose it within a compound and will foster it in a wonderful manner. Have you spared any effort in trying to destroy it? Had it been a human project, it would have been destroyed long ago...
Be sure, therefore, it is not me you are fighting, but you are fighting God. Can you not distinguish between fragrance and foul smell? Can you not observe the majesty of truth? It would have been much better for you if you had shed tears before God Almighty and had sought guidance from Him concerning me with a trembling heart, and had then followed a certainty and not pursued doubts and delusions. [Anjām-e-Ātham, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 11, Pages 64-67]
And:
God Almighty has not yet exhausted His support and His signs, and I declare on oath in His name that He will not desist till my truth is manifested throughout the world. O Ye people, who hear my voice, fear God and do not transgress. Had all this been a human project, God would have destroyed me, and not a trace would be left. But you have seen how the help of God Almighty has supported me all along, and numberless signs have been manifested in my support. How many of my enemies have perished as a consequence of holding mubāhalah with me. O servants of God, do reflect, does God Almighty accord such treatment to liars? [Haqīqat-ul-Wahī, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 22, Page 554]
And:
They must remember that all the abuse that issues from their mouths, and the insults that dwell upon their lips, and the filthy papers which they publish in opposition to the truth, all this furnishes the material for their spiritual chastisement which they have prepared with their own hands. No life is more cursed than the one spent in lying. Do they imagine that by their designs, their baseless lies, their allegations, their ridicule and their mockery, they can frustrate the Will of God? Or can they, by deceiving the world, put on hold what God has willed in heaven? If ever in the past the opponents of truth succeeded through these means, then they too shall succeed, but when it is an established fact that those who oppose God, and oppose the purpose which He has willed in heaven, are always humiliated and defeated, then there must come a day when these people too shall meet with defeat and humiliation. The word of God has never remained, nor will it ever remain, unfulfilled. He says:
1(۲۲) کَتَبَ اللّٰہُ لَاَغۡلِبَنَّ اَنَا وَ رُسُلِیۡ ؕ اِنَّ اللّٰہَ قَوِیٌّ عَزِیۡزٌ
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 sharī‘ah or any new claim or any new name, rather I have come in the name of the Noble Prophetsa—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 notice 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 person 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 Jamā‘at and how they used all kinds of deceit and went to the extent of giving information to the authorities and appearing before courts as witnesses in falsely instituted murder cases, and thus incited the Muslims against me. And how they wrote thousands of posters and pamphlets, and issued edicts of disbelief and proclaimed verdicts of death against me, and how they met in committees to devise schemes against me. But did all these efforts end up in anything other than failure? Had this mission been man-made, it would certainly have been annihilated through their strenuous efforts. Can anyone cite a single precedent in which so much effort was deployed against an impostor, but, instead of being destroyed, he grew a thousand-fold? Is this not a great sign that, despite all efforts to destroy this seed and to leave no trace of it on the face of the earth, it germinated and burgeoned and grew into a tree and its branches spread far and wide and it has now grown so big that thousands of birds are resting upon it?! [Nuzūl-ul-Masīh, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 18, Pages 379-384]
1 Allah has decreed: ‘Most surely I will prevail, I and My Messengers.’ Verily, Allah is Powerful, Mighty. - Sūrah Al-Mujādalah, 58:22
And:
The following prophecy is mentioned in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya:
This means that the opponents will desire to extinguish the Light of Allāh with the breath of their mouths, but Allāh will perfect His Light even though the disbelievers hate it. This prophecy dates back to the time when I had no opponents, in fact, no one even knew my name. Then, in accordance with the prophecy, I became known in the world with honor and respect and thousands accepted me. This was followed by fierce opposition. People of Mecca were told misleading things about me and an edict of disbelief regarding me was acquired from Mecca. A universal cry of heresy was raised against me, edicts were issued urging my assassination, the authorities were provoked against me, and the common people were alienated from me and my Jamā‘at. In short, every effort was made to destroy me. But, in keeping with the Divine prophecy, all the maulavīs and their ilk completely failed in their efforts. How blind are my opponents, for they do not see the grandeur of these prophecies: they do not realize how far back these prophecies were made, and with what majesty they have been fulfilled! Can this be the work of anyone but God Himself? If it can, then please come forward with a precedent. Do they not realize that had this been the work of man and against the Will of God, they would not have been frustrated in their efforts? Who was it that frustrated them? It was the same God Who is with me. [Haqīqat-ul-Wahī, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 22, Pages 241- 242]
And:
If these ignorant maulavīs choose to deliberately close their eyes, it is up to them. They can do no harm to the truth. But the time comes when many Pharaoh-natured people will ponder over these prophecies and be saved from drowning. God says: ‘I shall mount attack after attack, until I have established your truth in the depths of their hearts.’
So, O maulavīs! If you possess the strength to battle with God, then carry on. Was the humble Son of Mary, before me, spared any torment at the hands of the Jews? They even thought that they had crucified him, but God saved him from death upon the cross. So, while there was a time when he was considered no more than a fraud and a liar, another era dawned when his greatness was accepted in the hearts of people. Now there are four hundred million people who worship him as God. Although, they committed an act of disbelief by making God of a humble man, it serves as a befitting reply to the Jews that the same Jesus, Son of Mary, whom they regarded as a liar and wished to trample under their feet, has now reached such glory that four hundred million people prostrate themselves before him, and kings bow their heads in respect at the very mention of his name. Although I have prayed that I should not become an instrument for the promotion of idolatry, as happened with Jesus, Son of Mary—and I am sure God will not let this happen—God has informed me again and again that He will grant me great glory and will instil my love in people’s hearts. He shall spread my Movement all over the world and shall make my sect triumphant over all other sects. The members of my sect shall so excel in knowledge and insight that they will confound everyone with the light of their truth, and by dint of their arguments and signs. Every nation will drink of this fountain, and this Movement will spread and blossom until it rapidly encompasses the entire world. Many tribulations and obstacles shall come, but God will remove them all and will fulfil His promise. God addressed me and said: ‘I shall grant thee blessing upon blessing until kings shall seek blessings from thy garments!’ 2
So O ye who listen! Remember these things and keep these prophecies safe in your boxes, for they are the words of God that will one day come to pass. I do not observe any goodness in my own self, and I have not done the things which I should have done. I consider myself no more than an unworthy laborer. God’s grace was all that helped me through. Therefore, boundless gratitude is due to the All-Powerful and Merciful God Who accepted this handful of dust despite all its ineptitude. [Tajalliyāt-e-Ilāhiyyah, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 20, Pages 21-23]
2 In a vision, I was shown those kings, and they were on horseback. I was told that these are the kings who shall bear the yoke of thy obedience and God shall bless them.
And:
So dear friends! Since it is the Sunnatullāh, from time immemorial, that God Almighty shows two manifestations so that the two false joys of the opponents be put to an end, it is not possible now that God should relinquish His Sunnah of old. So do not grieve over what I have said to you; nor should your hearts be distressed. For it is essential for you to witness the second manifestation also, and its coming is better for you because it is everlasting the continuity of which will not end till the Day of Judgement. And that second manifestation cannot come unless I depart. But when I depart, God will send that second manifestation for you which shall always stay with you just as promised by God in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya347. And this promise is not for my person. Rather the promise is with reference to you, as God [addressing me] says: I shall make this Jamā‘at who are your followers, prevail over others till the Day of Judgment. Thus it is inevitable that you see the day of my departure, so that after that day the day comes which is the day of ever-lasting promise. Our God is He Who keeps His promise and is Faithful and is the Truthful God. He shall show you all that He has promised. Though these days are the last days of this world and there are many a disaster waiting to happen, yet it is necessary that this world continues to exist until all those things about which God has prophesied come to pass. I came from God as a manifestation of Divine Providence and I am a personification of His Power. And after I am gone there will be some other persons who will be the manifestation of the second Power [of God]. So, while waiting for the second manifestation of His Power, you all together keep yourselves busy praying. And let a Jamā‘at of righteous people, one and all, in every country keep themselves busy in prayers so that the second manifestation may descend from the Heaven and show you that your God is such a Mighty God. Consider your death to be close at hand for you never know when that hour will strike...
Don’t think that God will let you go to waste. You are the seed which the Hand of God has sown in the earth. God says that this seed will grow and flower and its branches will spread in all directions and it will become a huge tree. [Al-Wasiyyat, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 20, Pages 305-306, 309]
And:
O ye people, hearken to my call! Remember that this is a prophecy from Him Who created the earth and the heaven. We will cause this, His Own Movement, to spread in all countries and shall cause them to triumph over all others through reasoning and argument. The days are approaching, nay they are near at hand, when only this religion shall be spoken of with honor and respect. God shall grant this religion and this Movement His choicest blessings and unprecedented success and frustrate the designs of all those who seek to destroy them and shall perpetuate their ascendancy till the time the world comes to its end. They jeer at me now but their jeering shall cause no harm, for there has not been a prophet who has not been jeered at. It was, therefore, incumbent that the Promised Messiah be also jeered at, as God Almighty says:
﴾۳۱﴿ یٰحَسۡرَۃً عَلَی الۡعِبَادِ ۚؑ مَا یَاۡتِیۡہِمۡ مِّنۡ رَّسُوۡلٍ اِلَّا کَانُوۡا بِہٖ یَسۡتَہۡزِءُوۡنَ
Alas for My servants! There comes not a messenger to them but they mock at him3
It is, therefore, a sign from God; because every prophet has been mocked at. Who would laugh at a person who comes down from heaven with a host of angels? Even from this, one could understand that the story of the Messiah coming down from heaven is no more than a myth.
Remember, that no one will descend from heaven. All our opponents who are alive today will die and no one will see Jesus son of Mary descending from heaven. Then their next generation will pass away and no one of them will see this spectacle. Then the generation next after that will pass away without seeing the son of Mary descending from heaven. Then God will make them anxious that though the time of the supremacy of the cross had passed away and the world had undergone great changes, yet the son of Mary had not descended from heaven. Then the wise people will suddenly discard this belief. The third century after today will not yet have come to a close when those who hold this belief, whether Muslims or Christians, will lose all hope and will give up this belief in disgust. There will then be only one religion that will prevail in the world and only one leader. I have come only to sow the seed, which has been sown by my hand. Now it will sprout and grow and flourish and no one can arrest its growth. [Tadhkaratush Shahādatain, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 20, Pages 64-65]
3 Sūrah Yā Sīn, 36:31
And:
True, there are men steeped in darkness or in thoughts of their own. They will not accept. But the time is near when God will make plain to them their error. God has said:
‘A warner came into the world but the world accepted him not. God, however, will accept him and manifest his truth by mighty signs.’
These words proceed not from the mouth of man. They are God’s words, words of the Mighty Lord Himself. The mighty attacks mentioned in this prophecy are near. But these attacks are not by physical weapons, not swords or guns. These are spiritual weapons, which will come as help from God...All those who resemble the Anti-Christ, those who love this world overmuch and who have only one eye, having lost the eye for spiritual truth, all of them will end by the sword of solid unanswerable arguments. Truth will prevail. A new bright day will dawn again for Islām. Same as it did before. The sun of Islām will rise in full bloom, same as it did before. [Fathe Islām, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 3, Pages 9-10]
And:
A few days ago God Almighty vouchsafed to me the following revelation:
Say: ‘If you love Allāh, then follow me, Allāh will then love you. I shall cause you to die and shall raise you towards Me and shall place those who follow you above those who reject you till the Day of Judgment.’ People will say: ‘Whence have you obtained this?’ Say: ‘Allāh is Wonderful. He chooses whom He wills from among His servants. We revolve these days among people.’
The verse, ‘I shall place those who follow you above those who reject you till the Day of Judgment’ has been revealed to me repeatedly—so many times that God Alone knows the count— and with such emphasis that it has penetrated my heart like a steel nail. This indicates that God Almighty will greatly bless all those friends who follow my way and will grant them victory over those who follow other ways and this superiority shall be maintained till the Day of Judgment. No one will come after my humble self who will be opposed to my way. God Almighty will destroy any one who opposes my way and his way will not endure. This is a promise by God, the contrary of which will never happen. [Tadhkirah, Page 62]
