Life of Ahmad — Page 396
DEBATE WITH ATHIM as 396 that of the two parties to the debate the one who was deliberately following a falsehood and forsaking the true God and making a weak mortal God, would be thrown into H a viyah within 15 months, each month corresponding to each day of this debate, and that he would be severely disgraced provided he did not turn to the truth; and that the person who was following the truth and believed in the true God would be openly honoured. . . Now, I ask Deputy Sahib ( A thim): "If this sign is fulfilled, would you accept it or not as a perfect and Divine prophecy according to your liking? Would it be or not a strong proof that the Holy Prophet sa , whom you call a Dajj a l in the Andr u na’-e- Bible 84 is a true Prophet?"' Ahmad as was not fond of controversy, though when he was dragged into one he was not afraid of it. But in this case there was a special interest for 84 Pages 144,145, 196. In his book Al-Jaw a hirul Quran (Chashma’-e-N u r Press, Amritsar, 1884, p. 108) A thim had written that the description of the First Woe given in Revelation 9:2,3,10,11 applied, word for word, exactly to Muhammad (sa). Therein it is said that Satan 'opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. . . And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon' (the Destroyer).