The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 40
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 40 and says in reply that it is not true; rather, We raised him. Pray tell what does God intend to refute by this statement? Does He mean to deny only that Jesus was killed [or there is something else that He wants to convey]? Therefore, listen! By raising the clamour that they had cruci - fied ‘ I s a , the Jews wanted to assert that he was accursed and that unlike M u s a as or A dam, his soul was not raised to God. Hence, the appropriate answer on the part of God should have been that this was not true, for the soul of ‘ I s a had indeed been raised to Him. Whether the physical body was raised to Heaven or not was never the point of contention. Based on this, the reasoning attrib - uted to God is, God forbid, very weak, as it was the ascension of the soul to God that was being denied [by the Jews], yet God refuted this allegation by stating He had caused ‘ I s a to be seated physically in the second Heaven. What an answer! The death and the possession of the soul by God are yet to take place, so who knows whether his spiritual ascension would take place or not— the matter on which the whole controversy rests. In the same vein, having presumed some of my prophecies to be false, these benighted people argue that when some prophecies have proven to be false or have been misunderstood, then how can one believe that the claim of being the Messiah is credible, as this claim too may be false. The foremost answer to this argu - ment is: َ ْن ی ِ لَعْنَة ُ الل ِّٰ عَلَی الْكٰذِب [The curse of Allah be upon the liars]. Maulaw i Sanaullah had asserted, during the debate at Mudh, that all my prophecies were established to be false. I therefore invite him to pay a visit to Qadian and I ask him in the name of God to thoroughly investigate the matter and scrutinize all my proph - ecies. And I promise under oath that I will give him 100 rupees