Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 67
67 The Promised Messiah appeared exactly at the appointed time with thousands of Signs and Testimonies. I appeared exactly at the hour when rny appearance was anxiously waited for; forme the sun and the moon eclipsed in the month of Ramzan as was foretold; in rny time the plague spread in the country as was prophesied ; at rny advene pilgri- mage to Mecca was prohibited for a while in accordance with the prediction of the Holy Prophet ; my appearance was declared by the &ussinnain ; by the construction^ railways was fulfilled the prophecy relating to rny time which foretold of the camels being given up for a more convenient mode of travelling ; and hundreds of heavenly signs have been shown by me. Is there a man who can show the like of it ? By Him in whose hands is my life, more than two hundred thousand signs have been manifested on my hands, and nearly ten thousand men or more have seen the Holy Prophet in their visions bearing testimony to the truth of rny claim. Some of the most reputed saints in India have been in- formed of my truth in their visions. One of them died thirty years before rny appearance. He was known by the name of Gulab Shah and lived in the Ludhiaua district- He informed Mian Karirn Bakhsh of Jamulpur that Jesus was born at Kadian and that he would come to Ludhiana. Mian Karim Bakhsh was a pious and God-fearing old man, and he related this story tome when I was at Ludhiana. His relation of the prophecy of Gulab Shah made the Maulvies his enemies who persecuted him but he remained firm. He informed me that Gulab Shah had told him that Jesus, son of Mary, was dead and that he would not come back into the world and that the Messiah for the Muslims was Mirza Gulam Ahmad whom God had by His deep wisdom arid knowledge made the like of Jesus. Gulab Shah also told