Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 201
,201 my followers. What is it if nob heavenly assistance, for upon i earth no eibrts were spared to bJot. me put- The stronger the opposition grew, the more (I was made to flourish, untiLmy follow- ing now. exceeds two hundred thousand. Had not a hidden hand been in my support, and had my mission been based on human machinations, I would have bee>n long before shot iby one of t,he arrows of which I was made-an aim, ^and being utterly destroyed no trace , of mine would have been. left to-day. iFor there is no ;doubtr that an impostor does not prosper, but meets with destruc- tion in one way or another, because God Himself is his enemy. But Almighty God guarded ;me from. every evil that was designed against me in accordance -with His promise which He had irnada t-wenty-four years' before. What a 'wonderful assistance from the Almighty that He first informed me in > my loneliness :and solitude that He would assist me and bring thousands, of men to me and disappoint -my enemies in their evil designs against me,-andthen brought all this to fulfilment as He had foretold. How manifest is His assistance and how clear this sign ! Can it be within the power of man or devil. that ha should when quite helpless foretell his mighty success in the future, and this should be fulfilled not- withstanding the efforts of numerous enemies who rise against V him for his destruction. The fourth condition, 'viz: t that the ob- jections of the opponents should be fully refuted, has also been fulfilled by me. The greatest objection that. has been put forward against. my claim is that Jesus is alive and that he himself must \ come back into the world in fulfilment of :the prophecy relating to the advent of the Promised Messiah in the last ages. It has been shown by rue in refutation of this objection that Jesus is , dead and he cannot come back. For the Muslims, the authority \ of the Holy Quran is conclusive which says ; u>3 ) *&& ^Vy ^ ) The occasion of this verse in the Holy Quran is that