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210 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad so that this sign left an indelible mark on the face of the earth. Then, as hearings in court were taking place, statements and other written documentation related to my prophecy were copied and included in the official records and case files. In short, this was such a grand sign that no other nation can produce the like of it. Is it within human power and wisdom to foretell as to how and when a certain person will die, even a few days in advance? However, this prophecy was made six years before the occurrence and information was given as to the manner of death along with other details. Lekhram was a healthy young man of thirty, and he too prophesied that I would die of cholera within three years, and it ought to be noted that I was at the time far older and weaker, and almost constantly ill. But God Almighty displayed the brilliance of His hand, and dispatched Lekhram to set a seal on the truth of His true religion. The Arya Samajists Are Deprived of Divine Cognisance The fact is that the Arya Samajists fundamentally do not even know God. How then can they develop the strength to recognise, behold and show Him? They have erred at the very first step. In their estimation, life and death, being male or female, or becoming a goat or an ox, are all consequences of one’s actions. Now when birth and everything else is the result of one’s actions, then what is left of God? Why would there be anything in the way of new signs and miracles to prove the existence of God’s being? In fact, what need would there be for them anyway? Their belief is that God is not the Creator, He is only an assembler, in the likeness of a builder or a potter. They suggest that matter was present from before and souls just happened to incidentally exist as well, and Parmeshwar whipped up his creation by joining and attaching things—God forbid. I would ask, however, if souls and particles existed eternally, what argument could possibly establish that this phenomenon of joining and bonding could not have taken place without Parmeshwar? In fact, the natural argument that follows from this is that things are naturally pulled together by gravity. If this gravita- tional pull had not existed, neither could a brick be made, nor could a house remain grounded. Nothing else on earth would remain intact either. Therefore, in accordance with the belief of the Arya Samajists, if the soul and matter have existed since eternity, and there is evidence in physics for gravitational force, the Arya Samajists are free from Parmeshwar and owe no obligation to him whatso- ever. Now what evidence and sign does an Arya Samajist possess in favour of the