Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 197
197 people may not be able fco save thee. Thou art before My eyes; I have Darned fchee Mutavakkil (bruster in God). Arid God will nob leave thee until He has severed the virtuous from the wicked. Two sheep will be slaughtered, and every one who is upon earth, must taste of death. There may be a thing to which you may be averse, but haply it may be good for you ; and there may be a thing which you deem good but haply its attainment may be injurious to you. God knows what is good for you arid what injurious, but you do not know. " It will be seen that the revelations given above contain four grand prophecies. Firstly, at a time when I was alone and com- panionless about 24 years since, God gave me the glad tidings that I would not be left alone but would have numerous followers and that people will come to me from distant places and remote corners in such numbers that they should tire me- Secondly, that I would receive great assistance from these people. What I was when these prophecies were published, and what I am now when about a quarter of century has elapsed since their publi- cation, is known to the whole world. Alone I lived in the corner of solitude then in a small village, but now I have more than 200,000 followers. The third prophecy mentioned in the same connection is that people would do their utmost to bring this dispensation to naught and to extinguish this light, but all their efforts would be fruitless and all their designs would be frustrated. These three prophecies are shinning like the meridian sun. ISlo sensible person would hold that these wonderful disclosures of the deep secrets of the future, upon which no guess or surmise could shed the faintest light, could be announced beforehand except by a revelation from Almighty God, the knower of all secrets. There was no circumstance which could make the most intelligent person guess that the helpless and solitary man who