Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 236
236 with his own writing, every day that he lived was a testimony that he was akin to Musaylimah. God destroyed or debased the enemies of the Promised Messiah as according to the criterion they had accepted. Those who accepted the criterion that the liar dies in the lifetime of the truthful one were killed during the Promised Messiah’s life - time, while those who insisted that a liar can outlive the truthful one were given that respite. The fact that among the enemies of the Promised Messiah as we find the likes of both Ab u Jahl and Musaylimah shows the degree to which the Promised Messiah as reflected the image of the Holy Prophet s as. It also serves as proof that what befell the enemies of the Promised Messiah as was a delib - erate act of God and not mere chance or accident. Had all this been mere coincidence, how did everyone meet his end according to the criterion of his own choosing? Aside from those who died as a result of mub a halah or pray - ing against the Promised Messiah as , so many other afflictions befell those who opposed him that they have no parallel in his - tory. This does not require much elaboration because every coun - try and every nation has witnessed plagues, earthquakes, influenza outbreaks, famines, or wars, that have destroyed whole towns and regions. Some of the calamities that befell individual opponents were of the kind whereby they fell victim to the same misfortune that they had wished on the Promised Messiah as. For instance, those who claimed that the Promised Messiah as suffered from leprosy, themselves fell victim to leprosy. Those who claimed that he had died or would die of the plague, succumbed to the plague. Dr Abdul H ak i m Kh a n of Patiala predicted that the Promised