A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 89
89 thenceforward beget no children and that his existing son too would die childless. So it has come to pass. Saadullah died about fifteen years after the prophecy was published and though he was then in the prime of life, he begot no children after the publication of the prophecy. His son is still alive and though he is now above forty and has married twice, he has had no issue and is thus a living proof of the power of God to control the increase and decrease of the human race. Proofs of the increase of the race may be found in the case of Ahmad’s own children concerning whom he had been repeatedly told that they would multiply, and in the numerous cases of childless men to whom children were born as the result of his prayers. EIGHTH MIRACLE. CONCERNING POLITICAL MATTERS. Partition of Bengal. By way of illustration, I might draw attention to his prophecy concerning the partition of Bengal. When the partition of Bengal was carried out, and the Bengalis raised an outcry but the Government turned a deaf ear to it, God spoke to the Promised Messiah, saying: “As to the order that had been issued concerning Bengal, the Bengalis will now be conciliated. ” This revelation was received on the 11th February, 1906, and was published in several papers and journals at the time. As Your Royal Highness must be aware, this was a time when the Government was convinced of the wisdom of its policy and was not prepared to modify it at