Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 137
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 137 state, emerged ‘ I s a. It was to signify this that I was named ‘ I s a towards the end of the book, while at the beginning I had been called ‘Maryam’. Now reflect with decency, fairness, and piety on this verse of S u rah Ta h r i m in which certain persons of this Ummah have been likened to Maryam, and which then speaks of the breathing of the spirit into Maryam—signifying the conception that would result in the birth of ‘ I s a. And then read all these portions from the previous parts of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and have fear of God and look how He first named me ‘Maryam’ and then spoke of the spirit being breathed into me, and at the end of the book declared me ‘ I s a, born of this Maryam’s spiritual conception. Had this been a human endeavour, a mortal could never have the power to place such subtleties in his book by way anticipation so long before his claim. You yourself can testify that at the time, and in that period, I had no notion about the true connotation of this verse as to how I would be made ‘ I s a the Messiah. Indeed, on account of the inadequacy of human knowledge, I—like you—believed that ‘ I s a ibn Maryam would descend from heaven. Despite the fact that God named me ‘ I s a in the previous parts of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and attributed to me all the verses that bore prophecies about Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, and also said that the tidings of my coming were contained in the Holy Quran and the Hadith, I still did not realize, and pub- lished in those parts of my Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya my mistaken belief that Hadrat ‘ I s a would descend from heaven. My eyes remained closed until God had apprised me again and again that ‘ I s a ibn Maryam, the Israelite, is dead and will never return, and that for this time and for this Ummah, you—indeed—are ‘ I s a ibn Maryam. The fact that my mis- taken belief was published in the earlier parts of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya was also a Sign of God and it testified to my innocence and integrity. How can I remedy these callous people who neither believe in an oath nor accept the Signs as evidence, nor do they ponder over the guidance from Allah the Exalted. The heavens and the earth brought