Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 146
146 God reveals Himself in this manner to the followers of other religions also. Some time ago, Lekh Ham, a Brahman by caste and an Arya by religion, came to rne here at Qadian and asserted that the Yedas were the Word of God and that the Holy Quran was not His Word. I told him that since he asserted the Yedas to be the Word of God, and that since considering their present condition I did not hold them to be such for they taught shirk and many other impure doctrines, while I knew the Holy Quran to be of Divine origin for not only were its teachings free from the im- purity of shirk and all other impurities, but by following it the face of the living God was revealed and heavenly signs were manifested, therefore it was necessary that we should agree upon some criterion for testing the truth of these assertions. I pointed out to him an easy way for deciding this point, viz, that with the assistance of his Yedic God he should publish a prophecy con- cerning me, while inspired by the God who revealed the Holy Quran, I should also publish a prophecy concerning him. Upon this Lekh Ram published a prophecy concerning me that I would die of cholera within three years, while my God revealed to me that Lekh Rarn would be murdered within six years and thus' brought to naught on account of his abuse of the Holy Prophet of God. It was also revealed to me that the day of his murder Would be next to the Muharnmadan festival of 'Id, and that shortly after his death plague would rage in the Punjab. All these facts of prophecy were punished by me very frequently in my books and I further wrote that if the present Yedas were the Word of God, it was the duty of all the Arya Samajists to pray to their God as hard as they could for the safety of Lekh Ram, for it had been revealed to me that Lekh Ram would not be saved. The prophecy about my death from cholera within three years was