Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 109
109 SOME. CRITERIA OF A DIVINE REVELATION. IN stating the criteria of a, Divine revelation, we quote the answer recently given by the Promised Messiah, the greatest living receptacle of such a revelation, to an opponent who refused to admit the Divine authority of his revelations and called them hallucinations and Illusions. The Messenger of God wrote as follows : My revelation is as free from all sorts of doubt, untruthful- ness and untrustworthiness as the revelations of all the Messengers of God from Adam down to the'eeal of the prophets, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him. If to this statement it is objected that the supreme evidence of the Divine origin of the revelations of earlier prophets lay in the miraculous and prophetic elements, I say my revelations are attested by miracles and pro- phecies which in quality and number surpass those of most of the earlier prophets, and are immeasurably above those of some of them. There is another important distinction which gives to my miracles and prophecies a far greater validity than those of the earlier prophets. Their miracles are now simply tales of the past, not properly provable, mostly incredible when looked at critically because it is impossible to prove their historical reality. But to the prophecies and signs shown by me, there are thousands of eyewitnesses. They can be proved by an evidence of the soundest character because there are thousands of living witnesses to their truth whereas the miracles which constitute the basis of the truth of other revelations claiming to be Divine, cannot claim a single living witness. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, is an exception, because to the truth of his miracles, I am a living witness and