Arba'in — Page 36
36 a cave? 1 ✳ Say: ‘Allah will perform wonders upon wonders. Every day He puts forth a new wondrous Sign. Allah is indeed the One who causes the rain to descend after they have despaired. Towards that Gracious One ascend all holy words. ’ Peace be on Ibr a h i m (that is, on my hum- ble self ). We have poured Our love on him and delivered him from grief. We Ourself have done this; therefore, you should follow in the footsteps of Ibr a h i m. Now look, these are the revelations from Bar a hin-e-Ahmadiyya of which Maulaw i Muhammad Husain Batalavi wrote a review and which all the renowned religious scholars of Punjab and India had accepted and against which no objection had been raised even though in several places in these revelations God Almighty has invoked blessings and peace upon this humble one. If these revelations had been made manifest by me after the scholars had become my opponents they would have raised thousands of objections, but they were published at a time when these scholars were in my favour. That is indeed the reason why, despite intense emotions, they have not questioned these revelations, because they had at one time accepted them. It becomes obvious upon reflection that my claim to be the Promised Messiah is based on these very revelations, and it is in these [very revelations] that God has named me ‘ I s a , and explained that those verses [of the Holy Quran] which were about the Promised Messiah were about me. Had the scholars realised that by these revelations this person’s being the Promised Messiah is proved, they would never have 1. ✳ See Author’s footnote on page 18. [Publisher]