Lecture Sialkot — Page 61
L ECTURE S IALKOT 61 years were spent here and I walked around a great deal in the streets of this city. H ak i m H ass a m-ud- D i n, a respectable gentleman and sincere friend from those days, who even then had great affection for me, can testify to the times I lived through, and what an obscure person I was. Now, let me ask you, is it humanly possible for such a solitary person to make such a mighty prophecy and claim that one day he shall rise to such eminence that hundreds of thousands shall become his devoted fol- lowers; people shall pledge allegiance at his hand in vast numbers; people’s rush to acknowledge him shall remain unaffected in spite of severe opposition from the opponents; and so many people would come to see him that he would nearly become weary of them! Does such a thing lie within the power of man? Can a pretender make such a glorious prophecy twenty-four years before its fulfilment, in a state of helplessness and loneliness, and give the news of his eventual emi- nence and becoming the focal point of people’s acclaim? Nor is Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya , which contains this prophecy, an obscure book. Muslims, Christians and even Aryas in this country possess copies of it, and so does the Government. If anyone has any doubts about such a magnificent sign, let him cite a precedent from anywhere in the world.