Life of Ahmad — Page 115
as MASJID MUB A RAK 115 As soon as the 31st month arrived (February, 1888), they became impatient and dishonestly declared that the prophecy had not been fulfilled. (As a matter of fact they had become extremely nervous when the agreement was made public by a leaflet; and in their nervousness they had issued a leaflet in which they declared irrelevantly that they did not believe in any revelation other than that of the Vedas, etc. ) But they were stunned into silence and stricken with shame when in the middle of the 31st month the daughter of Mirza Ni za m D i n, who was a niece of Mirza Imam D i n, 27 died at the age of 25, leaving behind her a very young child. Thus was fulfilled the word of God. It struck terror into the hearts of men, and people marvelled and wondered. Some people are apt to scoff at prophecies. They think that prophesying is not necessarily a proof of Divine revelation or a distinctive characteristic of spiritual greatness; it may be nothing more than a happy guess or the result of empirical investigations. These objections do not, however, apply to Ahmad as. All his prophecies came from God through verbal inspiration. He was just an instrument and a mouth piece of God. It was beyond his power as a human being to make them. The fact that he sometime erred in his interpretation of them and that he openly admitted his error, proves him to be as honest and true 27 On August 13th, 1885, Mirza Imam D i n had issued a leaflet in which he had denounced Ahmad as. (See Kulliy a t A rya Mus a fir pp. 414-415. )