Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 271
271 Argument 10—Prophecies The tenth argument, which is also a compendium of thousands of arguments, is that God granted to the Promised Messiah as abun - dant knowledge of His secrets, which proves that he had been sent by God because Allah says in the Holy Quran: 1 اَّلِا ِنَم ىٰضَتْرا ْنِم ٍلْوُسَّر اَلَف ُرِهْظُي ىٰلَع ٖۤهِبْيَغ اًدَحَا۰۰ۙ He reveals not His secrets to any one, except to him whom He chooses, namely a Messenger of His. A person who is constantly apprised of matters of the unseen, and receives clear and pure Revelation that is free from all ambigu - ity, and is blessed with luminous signs, and is given knowledge of momentous events before they happen, has to be from God. To reject such a person amounts to denying the Holy Quran which gave us this criterion, as well as all the Prophets who presented this criterion as proof of their claim. Even the Bible says that the sign of a false prophet is that what he claims to have been told by God does not come true. 2 When we examine the claim of the Promised Messiah as in the light of this criterion, his truth shines forth like the noonday sun. He was favoured by knowledge of the unseen so abundantly and so consistently that, excepting the Holy Prophet of Islam s as , the prophecies of other Prophets pale in com - parison. Of these prophetic signs, I will now cite 12 examples. The prophecies of the Promised Messiah as were of many kinds. They related to political changes, social developments, cosmic events, religious affairs intellectual activities, continuation or