Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih V (may Allah be his Helper) said:
“Hazrat Musleh-e-Mau’udra said that when the fame of someone’s deputy is mentioned, it implies that the fame of their master and leader will spread. Thus, when God Almighty declared in the prophecy that he [i.e., the Promised Son] would achieve fame to the ends of the earth, it meant that through him, the name of Hazrat Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him) would also reach the ends of the earth. Now see how clear this prophecy is.
“In the time of the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him), Afghanistan was the only country where his message had reached with some significance because of the two martyrs. In other countries, there were only scattered reports—either spread by opponents or because someone received a book and shared it further. There was no organized Jama’at established in any country. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din went to England, but he used to say that mentioning the name of the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him) or the Jama’at would be tantamount to poison; therefore, he refrained from mentioning the Jama’at or the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him). Thus, if any name spread in England, it was Khwaja Sahib’s name, not the Jama’at’s or the Promised Messiah’s (peace be upon him).
“However, he stated that when Allah the Almighty appointed Hazrat Musleh-e-Mau’udraas Khalifa, by the grace of God, Ahmadiyyat spread to Sumatra, Java, the Straits Settlements, China, Mauritius, other countries of Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, other Arab countries, and several European countries. In some places, even during the time of Hazrat Musleh-e-Mau’udra, the number of members in the Jama’at reached thousands, and in some African countries, it even reached hundreds of thousands.”
[Friday Sermon dated February 19, 2016; Translated from Al-Fazl International, March 11, 2016, p. 7]