Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 357
35? As to my righteousness there is none who can lay any blame to my charge or accuse me of fabrication, lying or cheat- ing during my former life. Had my conduct been irnpeach- able in the past, there would have been some ground to assert that I was an impostor in my present claim. Bat there is none who can assert that my former life was in any way blamable. It is the grace of God that He gave rne the power to walk in righteousness from my early days and for him who thinks there is a shining argument in this. As to my claim, full light has been thrown on every side of it. -All sorts of argu- ments necessary for establishing the iruth of my claim have been manifested by God. Signs have appeared for me upon heaven as well as on earth. All the prophets from the beginning gave the glad tidings of my advent and all those prophecies have been fulfilled in my person. It is impossible that these manifold argu- ments should have been manifested for an impostor. Nay, the scriptures bear a clear testimony that the impostor is soon cut off and disgrace is brought upon his head and he is destroyed from the face of the earth. But my claim of having been sent by God has been published for more than twenty-three years as is clear from the first part of the Barahine-Ahrnadiyya. Are these the ways of God, or has it ever occurred, that He should not bring down His wrath upon the imprudent and wicked im- postor who appears with a new revelation every morning which he calls the Word of God whereas it is all his own fabrication, and continues these arrogant assertions for the long period of 23 years ? Nay, is it possible that instead of destroying such an arrogant blasphemer, God should bestow on him His assistance which He gives to the righteous and show signs and fulfil pro- phecies for him. Can any one point out any false claimant to Messiahship before me for whom any such wonderful prophecy