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262 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad for the morning prayer, I saw that there were many telephones on my right ear, and I am hearing voices of various friends from various places who are saying: ‘We understand well whatever you say about our Promised Messiah as. ’ I believe that I also heard someone say: ‘We accept this. ’ I also deem it necessary to narrate—in order to share the favour of God—that after the Friday prayer service, I went in to say something to His Holiness. After I had finished discussing other matters, I asked the Promised Messiah as about the sermon. The Promised Messiah as said: ‘What you have said is precisely my view as well. ’ He went on to say: ‘It is the grace of God Almighty that in expounding divine insights, you now stand on a towering cliff, as it were. ’” 1 The Night Between 25 and 26 August 1900 A Prelude to A Magnificent Sign On Friday, a throng of people who held differing religious views, and who had come to drink from the same fountain of malice, as it were, gathered at Lahore station. Once they had seen off Pir Sahib of Golarha, they strutted through the city as though they were dissenters, beating their chests, and rebuking the holy. Falsehood became as glaring as it was on the day when the Chief of both worlds, the Holy Prophet sa was exiled from Mecca, and the disbelievers of Mecca cel- ebrated a false hope. Today, the truth is being called ‘falsehood’ and righteousness is being trampled underfoot and many wretched people are coming forth from all directions. On this day, that revelation of the Promised Messiah as which was published some time ago has been fulfilled. The Promised Messiah as said: “They seek to portray this House of Truth as though it were a House of Falsehood. ” At night, His Holiness, the Prophet of Allah, the Promised Messiah, on whom be peace, spoke on this for quite some time. He said: “How can I be awed by such clamour? All of this tumult seems a precursor to me for the coming of the succour of God Almighty, which for a long time had been deferred. The way of God has always been that when rejec- tion reaches its extreme, the jealousy of God begins to surge forth to support His beloved in equal degree. The Atham affair caused an uproar, and I was rejected and dishonoured, but the jealousy of God Almighty showed the sign of Lekhram in a most swift manner. Similarly, I strongly believe that the current noise of op- 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 4, no. 30, dated 24 August 1900, p. 12