The Noble Son — Page 36
– FULFILMENT OF A GRAND PROPHECY 36 prophecy and is now in his ninth year. ’ 36 And in the footnote, he states: ‘Yes, there was a promise in clear words of the birth of a boy without delay in Sabz Ishtehaar. Thus, Mahmood has been born. How grand is this prophecy! If you possess the fear of God, then ponder with a pure heart. ’ 37 This statement of the Promised Messiah as is after full enlightenment [regarding this prophecy]. In the announcement of 12 January 1889 it was written, ‘a boy’ but in Siraaj-e-Muneer were the words, ‘that boy’, meaning the promised boy, who was mentioned in Sabz Ishtehaar , has been born within the nine-year limit. And in Sabz Ishtehaar , after Bashir I, apart from the Promised Reformer, whose names also are Bashir II and Mahmood etc. there is no mention of any other boy. And the limit of being born within nine years, was indeed only for Musleh Mauood. Now what further clarity can be given concerning this matter, that the one born and initially given the name Mahmood and Bashir-ud-Din by way of good virtue, in reality, is the same individual who is the real fulfilment of the prophecy concerning the Musleh Mauood? After Siraaj-e-Muneer the Promised Messiah as stated in Tiryaaqul- Quloob , published in 1899: ‘It is also written in Sabz Ishtehaar that this boy who is to be