Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 358
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 358 presence, though these people, on account of the darkness of disbe- lief, are not free from wickedness and rancour and are, like their broth- ers in faith, always prepared to give vent to their hatred of and malice towards Islam, and partake of the carcass of the world, and are utterly indifferent to truth and rightness; yet if they are asked to give their tes- timony under oath concerning this, then because of being under oath, they cannot avoid giving true testimony—if not for the fear of God, then out of the fear of being disgraced or incurring the punishment of [false] oath. Another of these prophecies is that Maulav i Abu Abdullah Ghulam Ali of Qasur, whom I have mentioned in Sub-Footnote Number Two, entertained some doubts about the great status of the revelations received by auliy a ’ull a h [friends of Allah]—and this was not evident in his face to face conversation, but was revealed through some pas- sages of his booklet. Some time ago, a gentleman from among his stu- dents named Nur Ahmad—who is both a ha fi z and a ha j i and perhaps also knows some Arabic and preaches the Quran as well, and lives in Amritsar city—happened to come here in the course of his mendicant sojourns. His denial of revelation seemed even stronger than that of Maulav i [Abu Abdullah]. Like the Brahm u Sam a jists, he applied the word ‘revelation’ to human thoughts alone. Since he was staying with me and had expressed to me, in very strong words, the opinion about revelation which he entertained, I felt much aggrieved by it. Although I tried to convince him by rational arguments, they had no effect upon him. Then at last I turned to Allah and informed him before the reve- lation of the prophecy that I would supplicate to the Benevolent God, and would not be surprised if the supplication is graced with acceptance and the Benevolent God might reveal some prophecy and he might be an eyewitness of its fulfilment. Accordingly, I made my supplication in the presence of the All-Powerful God that night and towards the morning I saw in my vision a letter which someone had sent by post on which there was a inscription in English: