A friend narrated his dream which also included the following verse:
وَ مَنْ یَّتَّقِ اللّٰہَ یَجْعَلْ لَّہٗ مَخْرَجًا1
The Promised Messiah (as) observed:
It seems to point to a worldwide calamity from which the only escape is through taqwa [righteousness]. Consider that the famine, which is continuing to intensify, is also the result of their own actions. Those who wish to be saved from it should repent before God, but no signs of repentance are visible. These people reject over and over again. They witness Sign after Sign and still do not believe. There is no rhyme or reason why they are bent upon denial and rejection. Neither the Holy Quran nor the Hadith are with them. The prevailing circumstances are loudly proclaiming the need for a Reformer.
They are being proven wrong both by logical and documented evidence yet they do not desist. They present jihad over and over again. They do not understand that when no government fights for the sake of religion, why would the Appointee of God fight with the sword? This is the age for jihad with arguments and this jihad is waging forth.
The people are in a strange kind of darkness and can’t see anything. Those taken to be their leaders are using strange machinations. The world—and only the world—is their objective. A seed was sown in favour of Islam. Instead of watering it they are bent upon ruining it.2
1 And he who fears Allah—He will make for him a way out (Surah at-Talaq, 65:3). [Publisher]
2 Badr, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 3, dated 16 January 1908