Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page xiv
xiv BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA - PART FIVE The Miraculous Life of a Righteous Person فنا ترک رضائے خویش پئے مرضی خدا اسلام چیز کیا ہے خدا What is Islam? Self-annihilation for the sake of God; To relinquish one's own desire for the pleasure of God. (see p. 26) Regarding the miracles evidenced throughout the life of a single right- eous person, the Promised Messiahas writes: Bear in mind that the miraculous life of one righteous person evidences greater proof of the existence of God Almighty than the [entire] heavens and the earth insofar as no one has ever seen God creating the heavens and the earth with His own hand. (see p. 56) The Promised Messiahas offers his own example of such a miraculous life blessed with divine Signs and intimation of the unseen. Prophecy about the Earthquake In this book, therefore, the Promised Messiahas recounts the many favours of God Almighty bestowed upon him and the many miracu- lous events from his life which demonstrate that God has appointed him as the Promised Messiah of the Latter Days. One such Sign is the prophecy of the earthquake. The Promised Messiahas received a revelation from God Almighty: زلزلہ کا دھکا Shock of earthquake This was followed by another revelation: