Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 92
92 NUSRATUL-HAQQ – HELP OF GOD the ravings of a maniac. Who knew that a time would actually come in which thousands would come to visit me in Qadian as was ordained in those prophecies, and several hundred thousand individuals would enter into the pledge of allegiance with me, and I would not remain alone as I had been at the time? God gave me these tidings during the time when I was unknown and alone so that they should stand out as great Signs in the sight of a man of understanding and a seeker after truth, and so that those searching for truth may know with complete conviction that this enterprise is not of human origin nor can it possi- bly be of human origin. At that time I was unknown, alone, and a man of meagre means- means so meagre that my ability was not even worth mention-and I did not belong to any such distinguished family that people would be expected to readily gather around me. At such a time and in such a predicament, who could have made the kind of prophecies that were published in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya twenty-five years ago, some of which I reproduce here by way of specimen: 1 ☆ إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ وَانْتَهَى أَمْرُ الزَّمَانِ إِلَيْنَا أَلَيْسَ هَذَا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا تَيْنَّسْ مِنْ رَوْحِ اللَّهِ أَلَا إِنَّ رَوْحَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٍ أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٍ يَأْتِيكَ مِنْ كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ يَأْتُوْنَ مِنْ كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ - يَنْصُرُكَ اللَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ يَنْصُرُكَ رِجَالٌ نُوْحِيَ إِلَيْهِمْ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ إِنَّكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا يَرْفَعُ اللَّهُ ذِكْرَكَ وَيُتِمُّ نِعْمَتَهُ عَلَيْكَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ أَنْتَ مِنِّى بِمَنْزِلَةِ تَوْحِيدِي وَتَفْرِيدِي فَحَانَ أَنْ تُعَانَ وَتُعْرَفَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ حِيْنٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئًا مَّذْكُورًا - وَبَشِّرِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنَّ لَهُمْ قَدَمَ صِدْقٍ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِم وَأَتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَّبِّكَ وَلَا تُصَعِّرْ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ وَلَا تَسْتَمْ مِّنَ النَّاسِ أَصْحَابُ الصُّفَةِ - وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا أَصْحَابُ الصُّفَةِ تَرَى أَعْيُنَهُمْ تَفِيضُ مِنَ الدَّمْعِ - يُصَلُّوْنَ عَلَيْكَ رَبَّنَا إِنَّنَا سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِيًا يُنَادِى لِلْإِيْمَانِ اَمْلُوا۔ 1. see pages 240-242 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. Actually, many of the prophecies in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya were revealed about thirty years ago, so twenty-five years is the time since Barāhīn-e- Ahmadiyya was written, not since the prophecies were revealed. (Author) 2. In the 2008 edition of Rūhānī Khazāʼin, the referenced text appears in vol. 1, pages 266-268. In the 2014 English translation of Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III, this text appears on pages 208-209. [Publisher]