Life of Ahmad — Page 791
as A FALSE MOSES 791 On page 19 of his book Il a h i Bakhsh claimed that God would grant him victory over his enemies and that He had revealed to him, 'God shall benefit the Muslims by your long life. ' And he said: 'I shall not die uutil I have done my duty' (page 19). Again, he wrote on page 79 that God had addressed him in the following words: 'You shall have the upper hand. I shall disgrace him who intends to disgrace thee. ' On page 80 Il a h i Bakhsh is addressed as follows: 'I shall make thee an Imam for the people. ' On pages 34 and 35 he poses as Moses. 177 With regard to Ahmad as , he said, God had revealed to him: 'We shall brand him on the nose:' (page 83). 'So he will die and he will be an infidel. His curses (in opposition to Il a h i Bakhsh and others) shall recoil on him' (P. 152). 'The wrath of God shall descend upon him' (page 79). 177 Il a h i Bakhsh had named his book ‘A sa ’-e-M u s a i. e. , the staff of Moses. By implication he had claimed to be Moses as , and expected that his book would work wonders and bring Ahmad as to naught. But God had declared otherwise; He had called Ahmad as Moses in 1883 and even on March 18th, 1907, a few days before the destruction of Il a h i Bakhsh, He sent His glorious word to Ahmad as saying: 'There is a Moses I shall make him manifest and grant him honour before the people. ' The false Moses perished with plague and the true Moses of God, Ahmad as , was honoured before the people.