Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 282
282 palace of Chosroes’. Autocracy disappeared from Iran and a new experiment at democracy began. During June and July, great fear and anxiety reigned in the King’s palace. For people of insight, this is a great sign of the truth of the Promised Messiah as. Alas, few take heed. (3) Abdullah A tham The third example of the Promised Messiah’s as prophecies relates to his Christian opponents and is meant to serve as a sign for the Christian world at large. I do not know if you are aware of the extent to which Christian missionaries are wont to attack the person and character of the Holy Prophet s as by making use of the false beliefs held by Muslims. The severity of these attacks about 30 to 40 years ago was such as cannot be imagined today. Seeing that the opponents had crossed all limits, the Promised Messiah as decided to fight back. The result was that the Christians, unable to defend themselves against him as , gave up the kind of rhetoric that they had adopted in those days. One of the Christians who used the most unbecoming lan - guage against the Holy Prophet s as was a man known as Deputy Abdull a h A tham. It so happened that Christians and Muslims arranged a debate to be held between the Promised Messiah as and Abdull a h A tham at Amritsar. Despite all his devices, Abdull a h A tham suffered an ignominious defeat. Since the subject of mir - acles had also been raised during the debate, God did not let the debate go without a miracle and revealed the following words to the Promised Messiah as :