Those who have been engaged in such service to religion ought to remember that they have done no favour upon God. There comes a time when every crop must be cut for harvesting. In the same manner, now the time has come for corruption to be dispelled. The worship of the Trinity has reached its highest limit and the Truthful One has been slandered and insulted to the greatest possible extent. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has not been valued even to the extent of a bee or a wasp. People fear wasps and are even apprehensive of ants, but no one has hesitated in speaking ill of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Such people fall true to the following statement of God Almighty:
كَذَّبُوۡا بِاٰيٰتِنَا
They rejected our signs.
They have lashed out against the Holy Prophetsa as much as they could and have openly spewed out vulgarities and invectives against him. Now the time has truly come for God to recompense them. In such an era, Allah the Exalted always raises a man. As God Almighty states:
وَلَنۡ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللّٰهِ تَبۡدِيۡلً
And thou wilt never find a change in the way of Allah.
God raises a man who possesses an immense passion for His greatness and glory. That man is supported by a hidden, divine succour. In actuality, everything is done by God Almighty Himself, but His raising a man for this purpose is in accordance with His custom. Now the time has come. In the Holy Quran, God advised the Christians to not exceed the limits in their religion, but they did not act upon this exhortation and having first been misguided themselves, they have now begun to misguide others as well. If one studies the ‘scriptures of nature,’ it becomes evident that when a thing exceeds the limits, preparations begin in the heavens. The fact that the time for preparation has now arrived is the very sign of the coming of that man. A chief sign of the appearance of a true Prophet, Messenger or Reformer is that he appears at the proper time and in an era of need; he appears in a time when people swear on oath that the time has now come for something to be done in heaven. But remember that God Almighty does everything Himself. If all the members of my community—myself included—were to retreat into seclusion, the task at hand would still be accomplished and the Anti- christ will fall. As Allah the Exalted states:
تِلۡكَ الۡاَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيۡنَ النَّاسِ
These days We cause to alternate among men that they may be admonished.
The ascendancy of the Antichrist at this time proves that the time for its downfall has now come; its height demonstrates that now it shall see a low; its flourishing is a sign of its imminent destruction. Indeed! The cool breeze has now begun. The works of God follow their course gradually and softly.
Even if I had no argument in my support, the Muslims still ought to have wan- dered frantically in search of the Messiah and asked why he has not yet appeared. Indeed, he has come to break the cross. The Muslims should not have engaged him in disputes with themselves, for his purpose was to break the cross; this is what the present time calls for and this is why he was named the ‘Promised Messiah’. If the Muslim clergy had the well-being of mankind in view, they surely would not have acted in this manner. They would have realised that nothing is to be accomplished by issuing edicts against me. When God says that a certain thing should be, who has the power to say that it should not be? In a way, my opponents are actually my servants and helpers, because they convey my message to the east and to the west. I have just heard that the pir from Golra is about to write a book against me, and so I am pleased that those of his followers who were unaware of me shall now come to know about me and they will have a reason to see my books as well.”