Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 331
POSTSCRIPT―SIGN NUMBER IIO 331 honour and glory upon me. And the time is close at hand when God Almighty shall manifest my honour even more, and those who are aus- picious from among the staunch opponents will be forced to admit Sablé (SÚ) TÍË TE ['Our Lord! Forgive us; surely, we were in error']. Moreover, they will have to concede before Allah that Allah has exalted you above us']. [We testify 110. [ONE HUNDRED-TENTH] SIGN- -The following prophecy is in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya: إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَكَ الْكَوْثَرَ ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ الْأَوَّلِيْنَ وَثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ الْآخَرِيْنَ. See Barahin-e-Aḥmadiyya page 556¹. (Translation:) 'We shall give you a large following. Firstly an early group who will believe before calamities descend, and secondly the other group who will believe after witnessing wrathful Signs. ' I have written a number of times that twenty-five years have elapsed since all of those prophecies were recorded in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, and they belong to a period [in my life] when I did not have a single person with me. If this statement is incorrect it would mean that my entire claim is false. Therefore, let it be clear that this prophecy, too, is recorded in Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya which, at the time when I was alone and helpless, gave the news of a time when thousands would pledge bai'at to me. So this prophecy has now been fulfilled. Except for God, no one had the power to give news about the unseen. The knowledge of the unseen is the exclusive prerogative of God. But in the eyes of our opponents, even the knowledge of the unseen is no longer exclusive to God. One is left wondering how low they will sink! 1. The two parts of this citation appear in Rūḥānī Khazā’in, vol. 1, page 617 and 664 respectively in the sub-footnotes. In the 2016 English translation of Barahin-e-Aḥmadiyya, Part IV, the two parts of this citation appear on pages 396 and 434, respectively. [Publisher]