Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 124
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 124 trying to ensnare you. ’ And so it happened indeed. In a criminal case filed against me by a man named Karam D i n, the Hindu Magistrate intended to sentence me to imprisonment, but God, through some unseen means, barred him from carrying out his design. And it was also revealed that he would ultimately fail altogether in satisfying his desire to punish me. Thus, the Y u suf of this Ummah—that is, my own humble self— is superior to the Y u suf of the Israelites, because this humble one was saved from prison even when he prayed to be imprisoned, whereas Y u suf son of Ya‘q u b, had to go to prison. And God Himself foretold about the acquittal of the Y u suf of this Ummah twenty-five years in advance, and He manifested many other Signs. Y u suf son of Ya‘q u b, on the other hand, had to rely on the testimony of a human being. The testimony of these prophecies was followed by the testimony of a terrible earthquake, whose tidings I had given eleven months before- hand, as the prophecy about the earthquake was accompanied by this divine revelation: 1 ٭ قل عندی شھادۃ من الل ّٰ فھل انتم مؤمنون. Thus, these are the two witnesses and no one knows how many more are to follow. In short, God—who is aware of the malicious thoughts of the big- oted too—called me Y u suf and attributed to me his words from S u rah Y u suf: 1. ٭ Here, God Almighty says: قل عندی شھادۃ من الل ّٰ فھل انتم مؤمنون. Meaning: ‘Tell them that I have testimony from my Lord, which is superior to the testimony of human beings’, is the same testimony, which God foretold about these baseless accusations a long time earlier. (Author)