Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 7
7 Almighty that He speaks to him and disclosed to him part of the unseen? Another criterion of the righteousness of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is put forward in the Holy Quran in the following words: If he had fabricated any saying and attributed it to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, then surely We would have severed his large artery, and not one of you could have kept Us from it. (69:45 - 48) This means that if the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had (God save us) been guilty of inventing a falsehood against God, he would have been destroyed by God. In other words, an impostor is frustrated in his purposes and is soon de stroyed and suffers torment. On the same basis of these verses there has been a consensus in Islam that an impostor cannot survive for twenty - three years after putting forward his claim of being a recipient of revelation. When we apply this criterion to th e life of the Promised Messiah we find that he was a prophet of high resolve and was highly successful and that the Movement founded by him has flourished continuously in the world. He enjoyed Divine help throughout. He was alone and was given a devoted Co mmunity. He was poor and helpless and God Almighty enriched him. He was unknown and God Almighty made him known to the ends of the earth. Every day of his life augmented his blessings and carried him forward. Has not his truth then been established accordi ng to the Qu ranic criterion that we have just set out? Had he been an impostor, God