Lecture Lahore — Page 52
52 Take, for instance, my claim that I have been sent by God and that I receive Divine revelations. These claims go back some twenty-seven years and were even recorded twenty- four years ago in Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya. Every reasonable person can see that something based on falsehood cannot persist for such a long time. However big a liar a man may be, he can never be so audacious as to keep up a lie for as long as it takes a person to be born until he becomes a fa- ther. It is equally inconceivable that God should help a man and cause his Jam a ‘at to flourish and frustrate the designs of his enemies, while He knows him to be a cursed liar who, virtually every morning for the last twenty-seven years, has been fabricating revelations and prophecies and falsely attributing them to Him. Another argument which vividly demonstrates the truth of my claim is derived from the prophecies revealed to me when I was all alone and no one even knew me. I was writing Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya at that time and none but God—the Knower of the Unseen— was aware of my circumstances. It was during a time of such isolation and anonymity, that God granted me some prophecies regarding myself, which I recorded in Br a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya, and they were published at that very time. The prophecies were as follows: