Life of Ahmad — Page 126
THE RED DROPS as 126 two most truthful persons who have never been accused of falsehood in any shape or form. They are not insane or feeble-minded. There is no ulterior motive behind what they actually saw. One of them sees the vision without knowing that the drops had actually materialised in this world, and the other simultaneously finds the drops without knowing anything about the vision. The drops were then seen by thousands of people. A search into the possible causes was immediately made on the spot and no explanation was found. What else, therefore, is required to give the occurrence the positiveness of proof? I maintain that in everything else we generally form our opinions only on such data; why, then, should people hesitate to believe in the happening just related? Ahmad as was surrounded by all kinds of enemies and they could easily have raised all kinds of objections and have destroyed the significance of the sign; but, in spite of its repeated and emphatic publication, no one seriously tried to refute it. The only demand that was made was for a declaration of facts by M. Abdullah Sanauri, under a most solemn oath, the words of which were proposed by the enemies; and they were all stunned into complete silence when, in accordance with their wishes, he took the oath at Amritsar in 1919 amid a bitterly hostile gathering. Muslims cannot object to these drops because they believe that Hasan Ba s r i once dreamt that Sham‘ u n