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218 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad today, and there are a large number of Roman Catholics as well who give Mary as the rank of God. Anyone who subscribes to the doctrine that Jesus as is alive will also have to accept—if the Holy Quran is to hold true—that the Christians have not become corrupted, and anyone who believes this will have to forsake the Quran, because they will have no choice but to accept that it contradicts well- established facts, God-forbid. I am not the only one who has defined the word mutawaffika in this manner; in fact, even experts in the language have described the word as such. Imam Bukhari has clearly shown that mutawaffika is defined as mumituka (I will cause thee to die). Then, reason supports me as well. To this day, we have neither seen anyone ascending into heaven, nor descending from heaven, and of course, reason will not accept anything that is beyond the realm of observation. If such an occur- rence has ever taken place in the past, then present it as an example. Now remains the question of heavenly signs. If I said that tens of millions of people are a witness to my signs, this would not be an exaggeration. For example, the prophecy about Lekhram explicitly foretold of his death six years in advance and also described the manner in which he would die, among other aspects; and the events transpired as had been foretold. As such, many Hindus attested to this fact and even Hindu women bore witness, because the prophecy had been widely publicised. Even Lekhram himself would speak of this prophecy wherever he went; in fact, he even made a prophecy about me stating that I would die of cholera within three years. But now I ask you, where is Lekhram? By the grace of Allah, not only have three years gone by, I am alive and present even now many years after, despite the fact that he was a robust, healthy young man, and I am someone who constantly remains ill and I am much older than he was in age. What else was this if not the support of God Almighty? Indeed, there are certain people who possess crooked dispositions and they are unable to understand even straightforward concepts—like the matter presented in court today that Sultan Muhammad is alive. What am I to do; where shall I find the words and what course of action should I follow in order to make them understand? These people neither come to meet me, nor do they listen to what I have to say, nor do they pos- sess any understanding or knowledge of the laws of God Almighty. They fail to see that prophecies were made in respect of four individuals, three of whom have died. Only one is still alive and even he is alive in accordance with the very proph- ecy itself. The objection that this prophecy is false would stand true if I die before p. 199