The Holy War — Page 121
Proceedings—Debate 27 May 1893 121 them, become coloured in their colours, and become a branch of their tree, bearing the same flowers and fruits that they [the Prophets] bear. Besides, it is obvious that man is ever in need of inner satisfaction, and in every age, when darkness spreads, there is a need for Signs. How could it be, therefore, that there should be no need what- soever of any Signs to maintain the religion of the Messiah as and this belief in the Divinity of Jesus as that is opposed to the facts? While the other people who are deemed to be established on falsehood, and the Holy Prophet s as who brought the Holy Quran and is considered to be opposed to the truth—those who follow him should be manifesting Signs in accord with the intent of the Holy Quran by the favour and grace of God, but for the Christians there are no Signs in the future, for they lie in the past! If the Christians now no longer have the power to show any Signs, they should themselves ponder what their religion amounts to. I say again, for the third time, that just as Allah, the Lord of Glory, has established three Signs of His true religion, so those are still, even now, manifestly present in Islam. Then, what is the reason that your religion has become devoid of any Signs and no Signs of truth remain in it anymore? Then you stated that the reason why the Messiah as refused to show Signs on one occasion was that he had already shown them before. I say that this statement of yours is not correct. Had he already shown Signs he would have given some reference thereto. And furthermore, I also say that I have indeed shown you the Signs already. Do you not remember the paper N u r Afsh an of 10 May 1888, in which—rejecting my prophecy1 with great fanfare—Messrs. N u r Afsh an had written an antagonistic article against it and had included the prophecy in that publication? And, then that prophecy was fulfilled in the allocated time. You have admitted already that a prophecy is also included among 1. The reference is to the prophecy regarding Mirza Ahmad Beig of Hoshiarpur. [Publisher]