Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 3
8 said, appear alike in places V1bere 1he prfachings of God's messenger have reached and VI here the guilt of the pecple consequent on their rejection of the same, has become es- tablished in the sight of God, as in places where they have not yet· reached and where the people have not yet incurred any accountabilities in respect thereof. In either case, these signs constitute a testimony of Heaven to the truth of His apostle whom, more often than not, He vouchsafes a foreknowledge of these events, a fact which all the more enhances their importance. Signs Promised to the Promised Messiah Now, in accordance with this same law of which mention has been made above, when about fifty years ago God raised His Prophet, the late Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, for the regeneration of the nations of the earth, giving him the names of all the world's prominent prophets and apostles of bygone times, He manifested in his favour both of these kinds of signs. He blessed him and his followers in the most extraordinary manner, and has further promised that He will cause all kinds of spiritual and material blessings to descend on those who will accept him and faithfully follow his teachings ; that He will so strengthen them that from a weak and slender sapling they will grow up into a gigantic tree, a tree whose roots will be firmly embedded in the soil below, while its branches will soar so high as to kiss the clouds above, towering over all other trees and so overshadowing them as to make them appear like small stunted growth beside it. But this tree is not an exotic growth : it is· the self-same tree as was planted and nurtured by the Prophet of Islam thirteen hundred and fifty years ago. Despite all this, however, as has always been the case ever since the world began, a fact which has already been pointed out before, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi was also destined to be rejected by many, for God had informed him at the very beginning of his mission : " I will show the flash of my signs and I will exalt you most miraculously. A warner appeared in the world, but the world accepted llim