Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 328
328 bi-monthly journal, and two monthly journals are also published from Qadian. It has five printing presses, one of them a machine press, and many books are published every year. The name Qadian is firmly installed on the postal map. Bigger towns may lose their mail but not Qadian. In short, even under unfavourable circum - stances, Qadian has grown in a way that has no parallel in the world. Its unusual growth is against normal economic laws and is proof of the truth of Divine revelation. Those who have known Qadian in its previous state, whatever their religious affiliations may be, are forced to admit that its growth is an exceptional coin - cidence. If only they could ask themselves why these coincidences keep happening around the Promised Messiah as ! (11) Financial Support The second example of glad-tiding given to the Promised Messiah as was the promise of financial support. This prophecy was made in unusual circumstances and in an unusual manner. In fact, this was the first of the Promised Messiah’s as greatest prophecies. It hap - pened as follows. The Promised Messiah’s as father was taken ill and up until that time the Promised Messiah as had not experienced any Divine revelation. One day, when it seemed that his father had more or less recovered, the Promised Messiah as received the following revelation: 47 ِ ارِق َّ مَآء ِ وَالط َّ وَالس By the Heaven and by the Night-comer.