Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 375
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 375 would you feel hesitant at pronouncing my prophecies to be errone- ous?1 ٭ Let alone the discussion of hadith and my prophecies, you turn away even from the Holy Quran despite being called a Muslim. God Almighty proclaims that Jesus has died; you designate him to be alive and have him seated in some chamber in Heaven. Did God Almighty not say on behalf of Hadrat ‘ I s a as that: 2 اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت َتْنُك َتْنَا َبْيِقَّرلا ْمِهْيَلَع Does this not mean: ‘After You caused me to die, You Yourself were the Watcher over them. ’? Does it not become clearly established, after reviewing all these verses, that the answer Hadrat ‘ I s a [ Jesus], may peace be upon him, gives to Almighty God’s question is that: ‘As long as I was among my ummah, I was a witness over their deeds and knew of their condition. When, however, You caused me to die, thereafter it was You who were their Guardian and Protector. ’ Thus, is it not clearly the purport of these verses that his people were not corrupted during his lifetime but were corrupted after his death; and he did not know what befell them and what creed they adopted after his death? Hence, it is clear from this Word of God Almighty that, if we were to suppose that Hadrat ‘ I s a is still alive, we will also have to suppose at the same time that the Christians have not been corrupted yet and are still established on the true faith, since Hadrat ‘ I s a ties the adherence of his people to the right path to his own life span and repudiates that he taught them to accept him and his mother to be god. And he submits before God, ‘As long as I lived among my Ummah, I only imparted them the teaching that You had directed me 1. ٭ In some of the hadiths it is also said that at that time people would be barred from performing the Hajj, but in your estimation all these hadiths are erroneous since they furnish proof in favour of my claim. (Author) 2. S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118 [Publisher]