The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 15
15 citing the revelations that declare me to be the Promised Messiah, ignorant people would have raised the objection that while I had admitted in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya that Hadrat ‘ I s a would come again, what was it that forced me to deny this twelve years later? However, those who are wise would agree that the fact that, on the one hand, divine revelation declared me to be the Promised Messiah in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and, on the other, I, with my own pen, recorded my endorsement of the traditional belief of the second coming of Hadrat ‘ I s a , clearly proves that this happened under the extraordinary planning of Almighty God. In short, by allowing me to commit the error whereby I affirmed the second coming of ‘ I s a in the same book in which I was declared as the Promised Messiah, divine wisdom caused my innocence and truthfulness to become manifest. Otherwise, all those revelations recorded in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya that declare me to be the Promised Messiah would have undoubtedly been regarded as imposture. What is more, wisdom simply cannot accept that the claim to be the Promised Messiah, which was made as many as twelve years after the publication of Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya , was fabricated such a long time ago. The affirmation of the second coming of Hadrat ‘ I s a, therefore, in the very book that speaks of me as the Promised Messiah is living proof of my innocence and truthfulness. Sadly, my opponents have become senseless to the extent that they pay attention to only one aspect of every matter and ignore the other. While speaking about the Christian man, A tham, they blatantly ignore the condition [contained in the prophecy]. They never mention the fact that he died in accordance with the proph - ecy and entered the grave, nor do they speak of the events that