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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 Prophet sa —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 Prophet sa , 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