Ahmadis and the Aryas of Qadian — Page 17
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as 17 me] should not come to pass, though it shall be fulfilled. Moreover, how amazing it is that not only Malawamal toiled to this end but the pundit of the Aryas: Lekhram, whose life was taken by God’s prophecy, too spent a part of his worthless life immersed in these writings so that the prophecy of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya should not come to pass which was published within it in relation to the inclination of hundreds of thousands of people [towards me] and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of rupees. In the end the result was that—as God Almighty had informed me five years before that as a punishment for his foul language, he would be killed within a period of six years—the unfortu - nate one, in fulfilment of the prophecy, became a pile of ash. In the same way the Christians too strived to stop this prophecy: I still have their announcements. Then the Muslims too, whose right and pride demanded that they ac - cept me, in order to stop the prophecy regarding my future progress, exaltation, and people turning towards me—that had been present in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya for twenty-six years and had been verbally communicated for some thirty-five years—undertook great toil to the extent that I imagine that over a hundred thousand such leaflets have been pub - lished by them in which it is emphasised that this individual