Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 65
S IGN S OF T HE T RU E FAIT H 65 their descendants and confirming the truth of Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, but the Jews still did not believe! Moreover, if the revival of thousands of corpses was, in fact, the vocation of Hadrat ‘ I s a , reason dictates that all of those corpses would not have been deaf and dumb. Some of them must have been the brothers, fathers, sons, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, or other near and dear relatives of those to whom these miracles were shown. For this reason a vast scheme had been opened for Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, to con- vert disbelievers into believers. Many of those [revived] corpses who were relatives of those Jews must have accompanied Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, and he must have arranged for them to deliver public addresses in a number of cities that must have been heard with the utmost interest and eagerness. When a corpse would stand up to address the audience: ‘O ye before me! Many of you present here at this time recognize me as you buried me with your own hands. Now I come before you having heard from the mouth of God that Jesus the Messiah is true, and he is the very one who revived me’—then this would have had an amazing effect, and it is obvious that such lectures from the dead would have had a massive impact upon the hearts of the people of the Jewish nation. Thousands upon thousands of Jews would have believed. Yet the Holy Quran and the Gospels affirm that the Jews had totally rejected Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him; in spiritual reform he was the least successful of all Prophets, and almost all the Jews con- sidered him a deceiver and an impostor. Ponder over it, O intelligent ones: Should this have been the result of such a supreme and magnificent miracle! Given that thousands of resurrected corpses testified to the truth of Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him—even affirming that they have seen Heaven inhabited only by the Christians who follow Hadrat ‘ I s a , and seeing Hell filled with the Jews who rejected Hadrat ‘ I s a —who could dare have even the slightest doubt in the truthfulness of Hadrat ‘ I s a after all of these testimonies? And should anyone have doubted, then his ancestors— having been revived—would have been there to kill them saying, ‘O