The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 4
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 4 people treated it with ridicule and refused to acknowledge it. The time-frame given for the fulfilment of the prophecy was subject to certain conditions. Moreover, the prophecy was made not because A tham was a Christian; rather, as has been stated in the book in which the proceedings of the debate were recorded and which has been titled by the Christians as Jang-e-Muqaddas, the reason for this prophecy was that he had, in his book Andr u nah Bible, called the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, a dajj a l [deceiver]. My prophecy was read out to him in the presence of around seventy men and it was explained to him that the reason why this prophecy was being made was that he had labelled our beloved, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as a dajj a l. Therefore, he was warned that if he failed to repudiate this word, he would die within a period of fifteen months. Consequently, A tham recanted in that very gathering, saying: ‘ God forbid! I have not uttered any such word about his honoured self. ’ He then raised both his hands and held out his tongue while he was shaking with fear and then verbally denied to have said any words to that effect. The witnesses to this event include not only Muslims; rather, it can also be testified to by more than forty Christians as well. Does this not constitute repudiation on his part? Did his fear and abandoning totally, during the pronounced time-frame of the prophecy, the argu - mentation he always used to engage in with me and with the late Sheikh Ghulam Hasan , who was the Grand Chief of Amritsar, and Miyan Ghulam Nabi, the brother of late Miyan Asadullah, a lawyer from Amritsar, not furnish the proof that A tham surely had certainly become frightened? Does his moving away from Amritsar and living in seclusion and spending most of his time