Life of Ahmad — Page 808
MIRACLE OF THE MESSIAH as as 808 stone unturned in persecuting him and tried their utmost to destroy him. So they could have easily conspired to produce some sort of a composition in Arabic 181 to deceive the people. But the fact that the learned people of a whole country were thus deprived of their knowledge and power in spite of the repeated challenges 182 of Ahmad as can by no means be called an ordinary common occurrence. It is certainly unusual and hard to understand. But I have to suggest that the only possible explanation of the utter silence of the opponents of Ahmad as is the fact that they were stricken dumb by God, Who wanted to give him a decisive victory over the forces of evil in the eyes of all thinking people. No other explanation can be conceived. Rightly has the book been entitled I‘j a zul Mas ih a miracle of the Messiah as. It was indeed a unique honour conferred by God upon Ahmad as in fulfilment of his Promise made on September 14th, 1899. The pens of all his opponents were openly 181 Ahmad as had received the following revelation i. e. i. e. 'whoever stands up to write a reply in anger will shortly see that he is ashamed and ends in sorrow. ' Muhammad Hasan Fai di of Bhi Ĕ , Tahsil Chakwal, Dist. Jhelum, a teacher at the Madrasa Nu‘m a nia, Sh a h i Masjid, Lahore, announced that he would write a reply; but when he had cursed Ahmad as in his notes) he was himself stricken with a cursed death within a week. Mihr Ali Shah wrote a reply long afterwards in Urdu, but it was soon discovered that he had only stolen and copied the Urdu notes of the commentary written by Muhammad Hasan Fai di of Bhi Ĕ. Thus he was exposed and humiliated. 182 On January 15th, 1900, Ahmad as received a revelation from God which was published in the Al- H akam dated January 24th, 1900. It was to the effect that no one would be able to write any commentary against Ahmad as.