The Noble Son — Page 18
– FULFILMENT OF A GRAND PROPHECY 18 The Reaction of the Arya Samaj After the publication of this prophecy, in reply to the announcement of 20 February 1886, Pandit Lekh Ram from the Aryas, wrote on 18 March 1886: ‘Your progeny shall very soon come to an end. At the very most, your renown will remain for three years. ’ 14 He further wrote: ‘My revelation says that let alone a son [meaning what mention of the birth of a son - Publisher] within three years you will come to an end and there shall remain no one from among your progeny. ’ 15 If within three years after such a publication of Pandit Lekh Ram, the Promised Son had not been born then to some extent his objection could have been considered to be correct. This is the reason that when the Promised Messiah’s as son Bashir I, who was born on 7 August 1887, died on 4 November 1888, Pandit Lekh Ram expressed joy and held his death to be a sign of the truth of his prophecy. Was it then not necessary in such circumstances that the Promised Son should be born within three years in order to prove the prophecy of an enemy of Islam to be false? Clearly this was most essential, and thus this is what came to pass, and that Promised