Arba'in — Page 14
14 will supplicate: ‘Our Lord we have heard a Caller’; that is, we believed in him and heard him. His call is: Make strong your faith in God. He is a Summoner to Allah and a Shining Lamp. Now, take note that in this revelation, the mark of the right- eous ones is that they will send blessings upon me. Ask Maulaw i Muhammad Husain that if this was an occasion for criticism, then why did he fail to raise an objection at the time of writing his review? Moreover, another much stronger objection than this could have been raised in this revelation, and that is that these two epithets and these two titles—‘the Caller to Allah’ and ‘the Shining Lamp’—have been given in the Holy Quran specifically to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Subsequently, those same two titles are given to me in this revelation. Was this objection [of applying the Prophet’s two titles to me] any less than that of sending dur u d [calling down blessings upon me]? Furthermore, far greater objections could have been raised against other revelations in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , the review 1 ٭ of which was written by Maulaw i Muhammad Husain 1. ٭ Twenty years have passed since the compilation of Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya. The book contains the prophecies that are being fulfilled now after many years. As the prophecy: ‘We shall grant you renown in the whole world, and your name shall be raised high in all places; and there shall be none who will not know your name. ’ This prophecy be- longs to the time when even the people living in this town [Qadian] did not know me. Along with this, there is another prophecy: ‘People will send you gifts from far-off countries, and they will come to you on foot from faraway places. ’ This is also a prophecy from the time when no one came to me even from a distance of 10 kose [a kose is approximately two