Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 150
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 150 do they claim to have such knowledge. Their prophecies that certain things will happen are based merely on signs and dubious conjectures, which are far removed from certainty; nor are they free from the pos- sibility of mystification, suspicion, and error. Rather, most of their pre- dictions are proven absolutely contrary to facts, baseless, and utterly false. On account of their evident falsehood and lack of fulfilment, those predictions are found lacking in honour, acceptance, triumph, and success. Those who indulge in those predictions are generally seen to be poverty-stricken, unfortunate, ill-fated, dishonourable, cowardly, mean, unsuccessful, and miserable. They certainly cannot influence the matters relating to the unseen to come into accord with their predic- tions; rather, in their own circumstance they exhibit the signs of the wrath of God and they possess no blessing or honour or help from God. But the Prophets and auliy a ’ do not disclose the matters of the unseen merely like the astrologers; rather, with the complete grace and immense mercy of God that always accompanies them, they make such sublime prophecies that the light of acceptance and honour shines in them like the sun, and which consist of good news of honour and divine help, and not that of misfortune and adversity. 1 Consider the prophecies of the Holy Quran and you will find that they are not at all like the predictions of the helpless people such as astrologers; rather, they surge with manifest and overwhelming signs of majesty and glory. All its prophecies are characterized by the same pattern—that it declares of its own honour and the disgrace of its ene- mies, its own glory and the humiliation of its enemies, its own success and the failure of its enemies, its own victory and the defeat of its 1. Please see Sub-Footnote Number One on pages 195–234. In the original Urdu edition of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , the Promised Messiah as presented this sub-footnote along with Footnote Number Eleven. For the ease of English readers, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V aba decided that it should be presented as its own section after Footnote Number Eleven. [Publisher]