Arba'in — Page 76
76 whether a period of twenty-three years or more has passed or not since my claim of being commissioned by Allah, but he did not request me to provide him with this proof. This is because Ha fi z Sahib—and indeed all scholars of Islam, Hindus, and Christians—know that more than twenty-one years have passed since Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya’s publication in which my claim was made, and in which many revelations from God were printed. It shows that my claim to have converse with God was published almost thirty years ago. Moreover, on the passing away of my father, the Divine revelation: َاف ٍ عَبْدَہٗ. ك ِ َ ا ہّٰللُّٰ ب اَلَیْس [Is Allah not sufficient for His servant?] was inscribed on a ring by an inscriber in Amritsar. That rings exists even today and people who made it are still present, and Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya is also there in which the revelation: َاف ٍ عَبْدَہٗ. ك ِ َ ا ہّٰللُّٰ ب اَلَیْس is written. And as the ring proves, this revelation is twenty-six years old. Thus, because this thirty-year span of time is proven by Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , and this cannot be denied in any possible way and Maulaw i Muhammad Husain had also written a review of this very Bar a h i n [ -e-Ahmadiyya ]; therefore, Ha fi z Sahib could not dare deny this fact which has been published since twenty-one years ago in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. So being helpless, he attacked the argument provided by the Holy Quran—as the idiom goes: