Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 631
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 631 and blessings of Allah be upon him. And twenty-six years ago, Allah the Exalted had named me Muḥammad and Ahmad in Barāhin- e-Aḥmadiyya and designated me a spiritual reflection of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. This is why in Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya people were told: قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللهُ. [Say, 'If you love Allah, then follow me'; meaning that, be sin- cere followers of the Chosen Prophet so that Allah may also love you. ] كُلُّ بَرَكَةٍ مِّنْ مُّحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم. فَتَبَارَكَ مَنْ عَلَّمَ وَتَعَلَّمَ. [Every blessing is from Muḥammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him; so, highly blessed is he who taught and he who has been taught. ] And if someone asks, 'How is it to be determined whether the hadith ,Had faith ascended to the Pleiades] لَوْ كَانَ الْإِيْمَانُ مُعَلَّقًا بِالتُّرَيَّا لَنَالَهُ رَجُلٌ مِّنْ فَارِسَ a man from among the Persians would have brought it down"] refers to me, and why it might not have reference to someone else from among the Muslims?', the reply is that in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, divine revelation has repeatedly pronounced me as the person referred to in this hadith, and emphatically declared that He stands with me. I call God Almighty to witness that this is the Word of God Almighty that descended upon me. He who denies this should be ready to come forth for a mubahalah and may the curse of Allah overtake him who denies the truth or fabricates a lie against the Lord of Honour. No one else from among the Muḥammadan ummah has, up to this day, made this claim that Allah the Exalted has given him this name and that he alone is entitled to make this claim on the basis of divine revelation. To charge me with having claimed to be a Prophet on my own is the height of folly and ignorance and is utterly opposed to the truth.