On page 5221 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, the following prophecy is on record:
[Now, come forward and go forth, as your time is near. The time is now coming that the people of Muhammad will be lifted from the pit and their steps will be planted firmly on a strong tower.]
More than twenty-five years have elapsed since the time when this prophecy from the God of Honour and Glory was published in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. Its connotation was: ‘The days of your good fortune are about to dawn which will exalt the glory and honour of the faith of Muhammad.’ As all know, that was a time when I lay hidden and concealed in the corner of anonymity. I did not have a single person with me nor did anyone ever expect that I would be granted this station. Indeed, I myself was totally unaware of such future magnificence and glory. The truth of the matter is that I was nothing at all.
Later, God selected me entirely out of His grace and not because of any talent on my part. I was unknown—He made me known and He did it with such rapidity as the lightning that suddenly reveals its flash from one end to the other; I was ignorant—He granted me knowledge from His own; I did not have any financial capacity—He rained hundreds of thousands of rupees on me; I was alone—He subjected hundreds of thousands of people to me; and He manifested Signs in my favour both in heaven and on earth. I do not know why He did this for me, for I see no merit in myself. I find it befitting my condition to recite this couplet of Sheikh Sa‘di(rta) in the presence of the Lord of Honour:
Those who were numbered among Your Elect reached their destination, I wonder what merit You found in a person as humble as me.
My God helped me in every respect; everyone who stood up against me in enmity was forced to fall down. For each one who dragged me into the courts to penalize me, my Lord granted me victory in all those litigations; to each one who invoked a curse upon me, my Master reverted that very curse upon him. The ill-fated Lekh Ram, driven by his false hopes, made an announcement about me that I, along with all of my sons, would die within a period of three years. The final outcome was that he himself died issueless in accordance with my prophecy and no one was left in the world from among his progeny. So did ‘Abdul-Haqq Ghaznavi arise, who sought my destruction with his malediction by way of a mubahalah. Well! All that success I enjoyed in every respect was after his mubahalah. Hundreds of thousands became my followers and hundreds of thousands of rupees poured in. In almost all the world, I came to be known to the extent that people belonging to foreign lands entered my Jama‘at; I was subsequently blessed with a number of sons, but ‘Abdul-Haqq remained issueless which is tantamount to death.2
He failed to receive even an iota of blessing from God Almighty nor did he receive any honour afterwards and [the following verse] became fully applicable to him:
Then Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri arose. He was eager to earn fame among his people by praying against me. That is, as Muhammad Tahir had prayed against a false Messiah and Mahdi, who perished thereafter; similarly, he sought my destruction by praying against me. But, after this prayer against me, he was quickly destroyed in an unprecedented manner. No maulawi is able to explain the mystery that, whereas Muhammad Tahir’s prayer killed the false Messiah of his time by praying against him, Ghulam Dastagir himself died after praying against the Messiah of his time. This is an example of the silent help of God.
More tangibly, God Almighty has bestowed upon me such awe that no Christian priest can dare confront me. There was a time when those people publicly shouted at the top of their voices alleging that no miracle was performed by the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and that the Holy Quran contains no prophecy, whereas, now, God has struck such fear in their hearts that they dare not face themselves in my direction, as if they have all departed from this world. I declare in the name of God in whose hands rests my life that if a Christian priest chooses to face me for this confrontation, God will abase him and make him suffer such chastisement that will have no parallel and he will not have the power to demonstrate—with the help and power of his imaginary ‘God’—what I demonstrate, and my God will rain down Signs for me from both heaven and earth. Truly do I say that this blessing has not been bestowed on people belonging to other faiths.
Therefore, is there any Christian cleric on the face of this earth— from the east to the ends of the west—who can demonstrate divine Signs in comparison with me? I have won the battle; no one can dare confront me. Indeed, this is what God Almighty had, by way of a prophecy, proclaimed twenty-five years ago:
[Now come forward and go forth, as your time is near. The time is now coming that the people of Muhammad will be lifted from the pit and their steps will be planted firmly on a strong tower.]
God is my Witness that we, the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, firmly stand on a high minaret and everyone is under our feet!
1 This text appears in Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 1, page 623, published in 2008. [Publisher]
2 Repeatedly addressing ‘Abdul-Haqq Ghaznavi after the mubahalah, I have written in my book Anwarul-Islam: ‘If you can escape the after-effects of the mubahalah by your prayer, do try to see that a son is born to you so that you do not remain issueless, which otherwise will be considered to be one effect of the mubahalah.’ Therefore, after so much insistence, he must have made supplications after the mubahalah. In the end he remained issueless. What greater Sign could there possibly be than this? (Author)
3 Surely, it is your enemy who is without issue (Surah al-Kauthar, 108:4). [Publisher]
