On his morning walk, His Holiness (as) said: “Adam was born in the late afternoon on the sixth day. At that time, the cycle of Jupiter was coming to an end and Saturn’s cycle was about to begin. Since the effects of Saturn promote bloodshed and carnage, in view of the fact that Adam would be born in a cycle subjected to the influences of Saturn, the angels said:
اَتَجْعَلُ فِيْهَا مَنْ يُّـفْسِدُ فِيْهَا1
Wilt Thou place therein such as will cause disorder in it?
It is a matter of principle that just as humans are aware of the inherent nature of earthly influences and plants, in the same manner, heavenly creatures possess a knowledge about heavenly influences.”
The Promised Messiah (as) went on to state: “On the one hand, the beauty and beneficence of Allah’s attributes ar-Rabb (the Lord), ar-Rahman (the Gracious), ar-Rahim (the Merciful) and Maliki Yawm-id-Din (the Master of the Day of Judgement), move us to declare اِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ (thee alone do we worship), while on the other hand, a person’s helplessness and inability are also factors which move man to naturally proclaim اِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِیْنُ (thee alone do we implore for help). The best prayer is one which seeks every form of good and repels all forms of harm. It is for this very reason that in the words اَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ (those upon whom God has bestowed His blessings), the favours bestowed upon all those who have been blessed by Allah from the time of Adam (as) to the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, have been sought in this prayer; and the words غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوْبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ لَا الضَّآلِّيْنَ (not those who have incurred divine displeasure, nor those who have gone astray) are a supplication in which one prays to be saved from every form of harm.”
After this, the Promised Messiah (as) said: “Those who assert that Islam was spread by the sword are wrong completely. Islam did not take up the sword until it was confronted by the sword. It is clearly written in the Noble Quran that you are to make use of the weapon that is used by the enemy to attack Islam. There are people who say that the Mahdi will come and take up the sword to do his work. This is false. Who attacks us with the sword now so that we would be justified to unsheathe our swords? Then, how regrettable that even though the Muslims believe that the Messiah will accept their established beliefs and he will descend from heaven accompanied by angels, an edict of disbelief will still be issued against him, as is established in light of various books. In fact, it is recorded that a certain individual will even go so far as to state:
اِنَّ ھٰذَا الرَّجُلَ غَیَّرَ دِیْنَنَا
Indeed, this man changes our religion.
I would like the members of my community to be knowledgeable in these arguments so they are not made to suffer embarrassment in any gathering. Mir Muhammad Saeed Sahib of Hyderabad and Ya’qub Ali, along with a few others, ought to prepare books in the form of questions and answers which teach about my mission and its objectives, and then introduce them in our school.”2
1 al-Baqarah, 2:31
2 Al-Hakam, vol. 12, no. 44, dated 26 July 1908, p. 3