Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 36
11. In the Riwayat connected with Lala Malawamal, set down above a reference has just been made to a prophecy of the Promised. Messiah that the Ahmadies, at one stage, would be forced to migrate from Qadian, but would return to it after some time. This remarkable prophecy contains a number of very arresting facets; and by the grace of God, when the time comes for its fulfilment the splendeur of the prophecy would burst forth and come fully into view; and the world shall not only see that the key to knowledge of events still in womb of the future rests only in the hands of. God, but that the ultimate control of all sorts of events and changes also lies only with God Almighty. It is now long past since the day when the Promised Messiah received the following Revelation from Allah: "Dagh-iHijrat", i. e. , "Thou or the members of thy. Movement shall have to undertake a painful migration" (September 1894, as referred to in. Tashhizul Azhan, for June and July, 1908). . On the basis of this Revelation, and also in view of the general sunnat of the Apostles of Allah, the Promised Messiah had the impression, to which sometimes he also gave 36