Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 107
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 107 So say to them, ‘If you love Almighty God, then come follow me, that God too may love you, and know with certainty that God will revive this dead land’; meaning that, of the inhabit- ants of this earth who have [spiritually] died, many shall attain guidance, giving rise to a spiritual revolution, and many peo- ple shall enter this organization. The one who becomes God’s, God becomes his. Say to them: ‘If I have falsely imputed against God, then I have committed a great sin for which I will be pun- ished. ’ In other words, an impostor is punished in this very world and never prospers; everything he does or had done ulti- mately fails. However, a truthful one succeeds, for the roots of truth are deep in the earth. He then says: O My Ahmad! You are My purpose and remain with Me. I have planted the tree of your greatness with My own hand—in other words, you are truthful and are from Me, so I will bestow upon you great honour and prestige among the people. This work will be done [personally] by My own hand; not the hand of any other. For this reason, no one will be able to bring it to naught. This prophecy relates to the future and it has now been ful- filled. —He then says: Do people marvel at this [in disbelief ], wondering how this will come about? Then reply to them that manifesting marvellous Signs is the concern of God; He is not questioned about what He does, but people are so questioned. of the moon. Hence, to cite this verse on this occasion signifies that here too some sort of lunar Sign will appear. So that Sign was the wonderful lunar eclipse that appeared during the month of Ramadan. Some scholars write that the miracle of the splitting of the moon was also a kind of lunar eclipse. (Author)