Lecture Lahore — Page 57
57 gentleman, was also struck down by a fatal disease and was close to death when I received glad tidings of his re- covery, and he, too, recovered as a result of my prayers. Signs of this kind are so numerous that if I were to relate them all this lecture would not end even in ten days. Nor are the people who have witnessed these signs few in number, for hundreds of thousands have witnessed them. In my book Nuz u l-ul-Mas ih , which is to be published shortly, I have enumerated a hundred and fifty signs of all sorts. Some of these appeared in the heavens and some on earth; some were related to my friends and others to my enemies, and have already been fulfilled; some of them concerned myself and some my children; and some were even manifested through my opponents without any in- volvement on my part. For instance, Maulaw i Ghulam Dastag i r Sahib of Qasur challenged me to a Mub a hala [prayer-duel] in his book Fat h -e-Ra h m a n , and prayed to God that whoever among the two of us was a liar may die first. No more than a few days had passed when Maulaw i Sahib passed away, thus bearing testimony to my truth. There are thousands of others whom God informed of my truthfulness through dreams. These signs are so clear and categorical that anyone who looks at them collectively will have no choice but to be- lieve. And yet some of my opponents demand that I must cite evidence from the Holy Quran to prove my claim. Though I have already shown that the Holy Quran con- tains enough evidence to show that I am the Messiah, I