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Extraordinary Renown and Divine Succour 127 how they wrote thousands of posters and pamphlets, and issued edicts of disbelief and proclaimed verdicts of death against me, and how they met in committees to devise schemes against me. But did all these efforts end up in anything other than failure? Had this mission been man-made, it would certainly have been annihilated through their strenuous efforts. Can anyone cite a single precedent in which so much effort was deployed against an impostor, but, instead of being destroyed, he grew a thousand-fold? Is this not a great sign that, despite all efforts to destroy this seed and to leave no trace of it on the face of the earth, it germinated and burgeoned and grew into a tree and its branches spread far and wide and it has now grown so big that thousands of birds are resting upon it! [Nuzul-ul-Masiḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 18, pp. 379-384]. The following prophecy is mentioned in Brāhīn-eAḥmadiyya: يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ. This means that the opponents will desire to extinguish the Light of Allāh with the breath of their mouths, but Allāh will perfect His Light even though the disbelievers hate it. . This prophecy dates back to the time when I had no opponents, in fact, no one even knew my name. Then, in accordance with the prophecy, I became known in the world with honour and respect and thousands accepted me. This was followed by fierce opposition. . People of Mecca were told misleading things about