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Appendix II 349messengers shall always prevail. Since I am His messenger, whohas been sent by Him, though without any new sharī‘ah or anynew claim or any new name, rather I have come in the name ofthe Noble Prophet sa —the Seal of Prophets—and through him, andas his manifestation, I therefore proclaim that, just as this versehas been proven true from the time of Adam to the time of theHoly Prophet sa , so will it prove to be true in my case. Do thesepeople not notice that at the time when these maulavīs and theircamp followers had launched a campaign of rejection andvilification against me, there was not a single person in mybai‘at, and all I had were a few friends who could be counted onfingertips. But now, by the Grace of God, the number of thosewho are in my bai‘at has reached nearly seventy thousand. Thishas not come about due to any effort on my part, it is in fact thewind blowing from heaven that has made them rush towardsme. Let these people think for themselves, how they strived todestroy this Jamā‘at and how they used all kinds of deceit andwent to the extent of giving information to the authorities andappearing before courts as witnesses in falsely institutedmurder cases, and thus incited the Muslims against me. Andhow they wrote thousands of posters and pamphlets, andissued edicts of disbelief and proclaimed verdicts of deathagainst me, and how they met in committees to devise schemesagainst me. But did all these efforts end up in anything otherthan failure? Had this mission been man-made, it wouldcertainly have been annihilated through their strenuous efforts.Can anyone cite a single precedent in which so much effort wasdeployed against an impostor, but, instead of being destroyed,he grew a thousand-fold? Is this not a great sign that, despite allefforts to destroy this seed and to leave no trace of it on the faceof the earth, it germinated and burgeoned and grew into a tree