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127 been barren, and now that there were indications of her being with child. God must have made a mis- take!) Thus she went out of the house saying that God had made a mistake. I asked her not to say so, for I had requested the Mirza Sahib to pray for me and I thought that this might be the result of his prayer. Some time later my expectations were con- firmed and I began to tell people that we would be given a handsome boy. People marvelled at this and said that if this happened, it would indeed be a miracle. At last the time came and the child was born. It was a male child and was handsome. The child was born at night and I at once ran to Dharamkot where my relatives lived, and informed them of the event. On hearing this piece of news many people at once started for Qadian to join the Movement, but there were others who did not go. Some people of Winjwan also joined the Ahmadi- yya Movement as the result of this wonderful oc- currence, and I too did so. I named the child Abdul H aq. I had been married for more than twelve years and had not had a child before. ' 60 Can there be a clearer proof of the fact that our God is a living God and that He is also the Creator? If there is no God, or if God is not the Creator how could it be that as the result of the prayers of the Promised Messiah as , a son should be born to a childless man, who had married three wives in the course of twelve years in order that he may have a child but had remained child- 60 S i rat-ul-Mahdi , compiled by Hadrat Mirza Bash i r Ahmad.