Life of Ahmad — Page 192
BIRTH OF FA D L-E-UMAR ra as 192 in the leaflet (dated April 8th, 1886) that he was not sure whether this son would be the one previously promised for whom a period of nine years had been fixed. At any rate, this prophecy spoke of a son being born in the near future, and it was made to show that the fixing of a period of nine years was not based on chance. God was Almighty and He could give Ahmad as a son in a much shorter period and make his birth a sign to silence his opponents in regard to the question of time also. A few advance copies of this leaflet were sent to the following: M. Indarman, Pt. Lekhr a m, Pt. Shiv Nar a ’in, M. Jiwan D a s, L. R a m Lachhman, the Rev. Im a d-ud-D i n, L. Murl i dhar, the Rev. Th a kar D a s and M. Abdullah A thim. These people were the leaders of the opposition to Ahmad as throughout the country. On April 15th, 1886, a daughter (‘I s mat) was born to Ahmad as. A storm of ridicule and abuse was raised by the sworn enemies of Islam, who were bent at any cost upon throwing mud at the Champion of Islam. The Christian paper N u r Afsh a Ĕ (dated June 3rd, 1886), Pt. Lekhr a m of the A rya Sam a j (vide his Ishtih a r dated, April 25th, 1886), Nab i Bakhsh, a Muslim of Lahore, and others declared that the prophecy was falsified by the birth of the daughter. M i r ‘Abb a s Ali of Ludhiana, however, issued a leaflet on June 8th, (printed at the Shula N u r Press, Batata) in which he drew the attention of the people to the manifest distortion of facts on the part of the opponents of Ahmad as , who, a few days later, also