Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 102
102 between us and them and rendered them like the drowned? And, thus did He cause disgrace to become the lot of every enemy. They reached this stage because they disobeyed their Lord and tried to fight against Him. These signs were presented before them justly and fairly, but they turned away from them like a miserly and mean person. When they return to Allah the All-Knowing, they will surely come to know of this. It is not necessary to write about all of the signs here, so I will present here only those signs that have appeared in the last three years. One of those signs is the promise that Allah had made to me and that I had published in my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah. As many as thirty years have passed since this revelation was received. The gist of this divine promise was that He would not leave me in the solitary state I was in at that time, that He would bring forth legions of sincere people who would attest to my truthfulness, and that He would not leave me all alone and alienated like impostors who forge lies, rather He would muster armies of helpers at my doorstep, and they would bring me wealth and gifts from far away countries. Their numbers will reach such large figures as is hard to be imagined by the dis- cerning ones among my friends and other people, and a precedent of this has not been witnessed in any other age. At that time, I had no multitudes of people around me, nor was there any group of people or an individual who would come up to me desiring to meet with me. Indeed, I lived in such obscurity that no one knew about me and I was so unknown a person that no one was famil- iar with me. Ever since I opened my eyes and became a conscious being, I have loved solitude so that I could irrigate my soul with the water of knowledge and thus appease the thirst of the camel of my self. I dwelt in this state of solitude for a long time and no one