The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 12
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 12 of the fact that God had so emphatically declared me to be the Promised Messiah in Bar a h i n; I continued to hold the traditional belief regarding the second coming of Hadrat ‘ I s a. Then, after as many as twelve years had passed, the time finally came for the real - ity of the matter to be made clear to me and Divine revelations began repeatedly to apprise me of the fact that I indeed am the Promised Messiah. In short, when the revelation of God in this regard reached to their maximum—and I was commanded, فاصدع بما تؤمر , that is, ‘Proclaim openly that which you are commanded’—and many Signs were granted to me and my heart was filled with manifest conviction; only then was it that I preached this message to the people. In fact, such planning on the part of Almighty God was to serve as proof of my truthfulness and a Sign of my innocence and simplicity. Had this scheme been initiated by a man with its roots in human planning, I would have claimed to be the Promised Messiah during the very days when Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya was published. But God caused me to overlook the [true purport of the] revelation recorded in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and I failed to realize that it called me the Promised Messiah. This happened due to my innocence, and this forms a great proof of my truthfulness. If this is not true, I urge my opponents to tell me why I did not make the claim for twelve long years while I had already been declared to be the Promised Messiah in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and why did I write words that clearly contradicted divine revelation recorded in Bar a h i n? Is it not worth considering how events unfolded? Is it not dishonesty on the part of those people that they quote the words of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya where I have mentioned the sec - ond coming of Hadrat ‘ I s a [ Jesus] as a commonly held traditional