Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 136
136 phecies whose fulfilment was clear as daylight. They frequency, the permanency of their effect and their miraculous power compelled me to believe that it was the Word of the same one God whose word the Holy Quran is- I have not here spoken of the Bible as being the Word of God for it has been tampered with to such an extent and undergone so many changes from human v hands that it does not now deserve to be called the Word of God. But the Word of God, which is revealed to me, is so sure and certain that I have found and seen my God through it. The certain truth of my revelation is not only established by the heavenly signs which accompany it, but every word of it was found in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Holy Quran when its truth was tested by this criterion. Its truth was further demonstrated by the appearance of the promised signs. The sun and the moon eclipsed in the month of Karnzan in those very days, in accordance with the prophecy which declared a peculiar eclipse of the sun and the moon in the time of the Mahdi. The plague also made its appearance and havoced the Punjab. This visitation of the plague in the last days was also foretold in the Holy Quran as well as by the former prophets and its devastation was described to a general devastation to which no village or town would be an exception. Thus as it come to pass in accor- dance with the prophetic word. Of its appearance in this country, Almighty God informed me more than twenty-two years before its visitation, and revelation on this point were afterwards granted in abundance, frequently expressing the same meaning in different forms. In the following revelations Almighty God addressed me thus. * " The doom of God comes to pass, therefore, hasten it not. These are the glad tidings which the prophets of God have always been receiving. Yerily God is with those who fear him, * The original revelations are in Arabic and their translation is given here,