Life of Ahmad — Page 105
105 CHAPTER 8 SHOWING HEAVENLY SIGNS Swami Day a nand was delivering lectures in the native states of Rajputana, having been invited there by the chief of Shahapur, when Ahmad as sent him a registered letter on April 20, 1883. He had already addressed him in several ways. In this letter he offered to send him free the Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya (of which three parts had been published by that time), if he would like to study the book. He also wrote that in whichever way Swami Day a nand liked he would prove to him the truth and superiority of Islam. Apart from the reasons which Ahmad as had given in the book, he was prepared to show him heavenly signs. But the Swami did not care to read the book, nor did he express any desire to hold a debate or to see any heavenly sign. In answer to Ahmad’s as letters he resorted to sneer and ridicule. He did not know that his end was so near at that time. A few months later, however, when the Swami was staying as a guest of the maharaja of Jodhpur, Ahmad as received in August 1883 a revelation from on high that the end of