The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 445
Repeated Challenges 445 lished several of his supposed revelations concerning me? He too passed away in my lifetime. Where is the account- ant Bābū Ilāhī Bakhsh of Lahore, the author of 'Asā-e- Mūsā, who described himself as Moses and called me Pharaoh and predicted my death by the plague in his own lifetime, and published several other prophecies about my ruin? He too died of plague within my lifetime, thus bearing witness that his book 'Aşā-e-Mūsā was false and a bundle of impostures. All these people had hoped that I would become an illustration of the verse: ان يَكُ كَاذِبًا فَعَلَيْهِ كَذِبُهُ 261 But they themselves illustrated this verse by their ruin. By destroying them God also made me an illustration of the second part of the same verse: وَإِن يَكُ صَادِقًا يُصِبْكُمْ بَعْضُ الَّذِي يَعِدُكُمْ 262 Have not all these events fully established the design of God Almighty? Yet it was necessary for my opponents to have rejected me because of the Divine prediction pub- lished 26 years ago in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah: A Warner came to the world and the world did not ac- cept him, but God will accept him and will establish his truth with powerful assaults. I am certain that God will not stop His signs till my truth is made manifest to the world. Today, 15th May 1908, it has occurred to me that there is 261 'If he be a liar, on him will be the sin of his lie. '-Al-Mu'min, 40:29 [Publisher] 262 'But if he is truthful, then some of that which he threatens you with will surely befall you. '-Al-Mu'min, 40:29 [Publisher]