Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 63
S IGN S OF T HE T RU E FAIT H 63 of intuition finds no satisfaction in miracles that are only meant for making a distinction; and persists in his demand that he will not accept any miracle except that which is as clear as Doomsday. He demands, for instance, that someone should go to heaven and return before his very eyes holding a book in his hand. Not only that, he also says that he will not believe unless he himself takes the book in his own hand and reads from it. Or, for instance, that the one who descends should bring with him a piece of the moon or the sun to illuminate the earth. Or, better still, he should descend from heaven accompanied by angels, performing supernormal acts as angels do. Or that ten or twenty dead people should be resurrected through his prayer, and they should be recognized as fathers or grandfathers of so and so, who had died at such and such a time. As if all this was not enough, it also being necessary that these resurrected people must hold rallies in different cities and deliver lectures, loudly proclaiming that they are the dead who have been brought back to the world in order to testify to the truth of a par- ticular religion or to bear witness that a certain person who claims to be from God is indeed from Him, for they have heard from God Himself that he is truthful. Such are the self - conceived miracles that the majority of ignorant people, who are totally unaware of the essence of faith, are in the habit of demanding. They also demand other similarly unreasonable and absurd phenomena that are far removed from the true will and intention of God. For example, some time ago a man from among the A ryah by the name of Lekh Ram came to Qadian and demanded just such a Sign from me. I endeavoured to make him understand that the Signs are meant to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and that they are only shown insofar as they serve this purpose. But he had been so deprived of sense and deluded by his prejudice that he failed to understand this fact. Eventually, on account of his denial of Signs, he himself became the very target of the Sign of God while he was in Lahore. As I had prophesied in response to his false prophecy, he died within six years. This divine decree was communicated five