Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page xxi
xx BAr a h i n-e-a h madiyya Ibn-e-Imran, in the dark night of my own ideas when sud- denly I heard the voice from the unseen: Verily, I am your Lord. Thereafter, such secrets were revealed to me as I had not thought or imagined. Therefore, Allah the Almighty is now the Guardian and Manager of this book, both manifestly and intrinsically. I do not know what His will is as to its size. The fact is that the blessings of the divine origin of Islam which have been manifested up to Part IV are sufficient to bring the argument home. I hope that with His grace and munificence, He will continue to grace me with His support from the unseen till the darkness of doubts and suspicions is totally dissipated… ( Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya , Part IV, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , vol. 1, p. 673) Under divine commandment, he founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at in 1889 and invited all the righteous to take the bai‘at (pledge of allegiance). Later, he claimed to be the same Mahdi and Promised Messiah whose advent had been prophesied by the Holy Prophet sa for the latter days. Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III records a dream which the Promised Messiah as saw in his early youth that is specifically related to Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. He relates: My humble self saw Hadrat Kh a tamul-Anbiy a ’ [the Seal of the Prophets], may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in a dream in 1864 or 1865 in my early youth, when I was still pursuing my studies. In my dream I had in my hand a religious book which I felt was of my own authorship. Upon seeing the book, the Holy Prophet, may