Life of Ahmad — Page 186
186 CHAPTER 18 BIRTH OF FA D L-E-UMAR ra After publishing the Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya which supplied a most reasoned basis for religion and established the superiority of the Holy Quran over all other scriptures of the world, Ahmad as wanted to confirm, demonstrate and vindicate the truth, excellence and beauty of Islam by heavenly signs. In those days he was hardly known beyond the Punjab and, so far as the outside world was concerned, he lived a life of relative insignificance. In that state Ahmad as offered to the whole world to show heavenly signs, but Hindus, Christians and Muslims would not give him a fair chance. Therefore in his extreme solicitude for the spiritual welfare of mankind he sought, as has already been related, a place where he could be absolutely alone with God to implore His mercy. So he was directed by God to repair to Hoshiarpur; and there, like Moses as on the Mount, 40 he 40 'And Moses was in the Mount forty nights' ( Exod. 24:18). God had addressed Ahmad as in 1883 as follows: 'Thou holdest among men the position of Moses as. '