Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 377
SuB-Footnote Number Three 377 this purpose so that [the news of ] one country’s incidents are known to others. Thus, spreading the true proofs of the religion of Islam through- out the world undoubtedly depended on such an age, and this very resourceful age possesses the means of extending the hospitality to this dear guest [Islam] in all aspects. Thus, by raising this humblest of men in this age and bestowing upon me hundreds of heavenly Signs and vouchsafing to me miracu- lous secrets, and divine insights and verities, and furnishing me with hundreds of conclusive intellectual arguments, God Almighty has desired that He should publish and introduce the true teachings of the Holy Quran among every people and in every country, and that He may perfect His conclusive argument upon them. In order to fulfil this design, the Benevolent God enabled this humble one to include an announcement in this book for an award of ten thousand rupees to complete the argument, to set forth a heavenly Sign with the tes- timony of enemies and opponents, and to invite all of the opponents for a contest, so that not even the minutest aspect of completing the argument be left unattended. Every one of my opponents will him- self become a witness to his own helplessness and defeat. In short, the resources for the propagation of the Faith and the arguments and conclusive proofs which the Benevolent God has bestowed upon me by His grace and beneficence have not been bestowed upon anyone of the followers of earlier faiths, nor were the abilities, which have been vouchsafed upon this humble one from the unseen, granted to any of them تیہ من یشآء. ٔ وذٰلك فضل الل ّٰ یو [And that is Allah’s grace; He bestows it upon whomsoever He pleases]. Since Allah the Benevolent has particularly endowed my hum- ble self with special resources and has raised this humble one in an age which is most conducive and helpful in carrying out the service of propagation to its completion, He has also given me the glad tid- ings—through His grace and beneficence—that from eternity it had been destined that the spiritual fulfilment of the above-mentioned