Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 205
205- God. Had they been really unable to comprehend any sign, they should have sought its explanation from me. Is it true piety that they do not so much as mention thousands of the signs against which they cannot. bring forward any objection and whenever they have to speak of signs refer only to the one or two which their warped understanding is unable to comprehend. Had they had any fear of God, they would havebenefitted by the prophecies which have been fulfilled, and of which the clearest proof exists. Every plain miracle is treated as in different 137 as if it had not existed at all, and where there is a subtle question an objection is brought forward. Now this is a process which, if adopted, would bring to naught the prophethood of every pro- phet, and those who reject rne because they can object to one or two of my prophecies, will have to reject by and by every prophet of God, on the same line of reasoning. For instance, Jesus was a prophet of God and as such he must, no doubt have shown certain miracles. But if his signs were to be judged by the test which is applied in my case, the whole body of his miracles would have to be rejected in the same way as mine are rejected. For, an opponent with this bent of rnind, can say that some of his prophecies were not fulfilled. This is what the Jews say to this day, viz. , that all his prophecies turned out to be false. And he can easily argue that Jesus had prophesied that is twelve apostles would sit on twelve thrones, but one of them apostatised even during the life-time of Jesus, and thus the prophecy remained unfulfilled. He had also said, it may be further asserted by an opponent, that he would come back before the generation then living passed away, but generation after generation has slept in graves for nineteen centuries and still he has not returned. According to his opponents, his prophecy that he was the king of the Jews also turned out to be false. And any one who chooses