Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 572
572 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION thirty to thirty-two years earlier came to be manifested. And so far sev- eral hundreds of thousands of people have come to Qadian and have joined the system of bai‘at [pledge of allegiance]. And in reality peo- ple came to Qadian to perform the bai'at in such large numbers that meeting them all would have exhausted me, had I not remembered this revelation: وَ لَا تُصَوِّرُ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا تَسْتَمْ مِّنَ النَّاسِ [Do not turn away from Allah's creatures and be not tired of people. ] I would have failed to adequately discharge the requirements of good, high morals, had Allah the Exalted, in His kindness and mercy, not informed me of these events some thirty to thirty-two years ago. God has helped me financially too. This can be verified from the records of the money orders I have received through the Post Office. I have so far received several hundred thousand rupees. In addition, there is the money people offer in person or otherwise send by post in the shape of currency notes. The different departments of my Community also cost approximately 3,000 rupees per month. It is evident from this that the current monthly income is about the same, whereas at the time when the prophecy pertaining to financial victories was published in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, no one contributed even a single penny per year, nor was there any hope of any such income. And thirty to thir- ty-two years have elapsed since this prophecy was made and it belongs to a time when not a single penny would come from anyone and no one as yet had entered into my Jama'at. I was rather like the seed that lay hidden beneath the soil as God Almighty Himself testified about me in Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya published twenty-six years ago and the revelation reads as follows: رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَّأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِيْنَ