Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 91
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 91 complete disaster, because no aspect was favourable for success. The first requirement is money, but at the time of this revelation of God, all our landed property had been lost, and there was not a single person with me who could provide financial support. Secondly, I was not the scion of some distinguished family who could have an impact on any- one. I was helpless on all counts. It was but natural for me to have been overawed by this revelation. At that time, I stood in great need to be comforted by Almighty God’s glorious promises, to safeguard me from dying of unbearable anxiety. I, therefore, cannot find words to ade- quately express my gratitude to the Benevolent and Omnipotent Lord, who did support me with His glad tidings in my hour of helplessness and anguish, and subsequently fulfilled all His promises. If the help and succour of God Almighty had come about without prior prophe- cies, they could have been attributed to good luck or chance, but now they constitute such extraordinary Signs that only a person of satanic nature would dare deny them. Thereafter, God fulfilled all the promises that He had made a long time ago in the form of prophecies. He helped and supported me in every way. All those difficulties, the mere thought of which may well have broken my back, and the anxieties from which I feared for my life—He removed them all. And as He had promised, so did He bring forth. Although He could have shown me His help and support without informing me beforehand, He chose not to do so. Instead, He granted me prophecies about His support and help at a time of hopelessness that could be likened to the period in the life of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, when he walked in the streets of Makkah all alone with no one by his side, and with no appar- ent sign of success. In the same way, the prophecies made during the period when I was unknown were regarded by people as ludicrous, unreasonable, and like Then, out of fear, he said, would that I had died before this and had become a thing quite forgotten. ’ (Author)