The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 22
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI could refute even one fifth of his arguments, he would give him gladly his entire estate worth 10,000 Rupees. No one was able to accept the challenge. . In this book, Hadhrat Ahmad wrote extensively about the phenomenon of revelation and gave examples of revelations which he received from Allah and many of them contained prophecies and how they were fulfilled. Thus he proved that God still speaks as in the past to his righteous servants in Islam. He thus challenged Atheists and. Humanists who deny revelation. Indian Muslim scholars praised this book highly and Hadhrat Ahmad was accepted to be the greatest and the foremost scholar and thinker of Islam. . The first marriage of Hadhrat Ahmad was with his cousin,. Hurmat Bibi. He was seventeen at that time. He had two sons by this marriage, Sultan Ahmad and Fazal Ahmad. This marriage did not prove successful and after four years ended in separation and was never resumed. . His the second marriage was with Nusrat Jehan Begum who belonged to a noble Sayyed family of Delhi. He had received revelation giving good news about this marriage in 1881 and it was fulfilled in 1884. This marriage proved to be very successful. He was blessed with four sons and two daughters. . By this time he had received revelation about his calling to a Divine. Mission. "Tell the people that you have been called to a Divine. . Mission and that you are yourself the first to believe in that Mission". . He wrote about it saying, "This writer has been given the knowledge that he is the Mujjaddid (Reformer) of this era and that spiritually his qualities and attributes resemble the qualities and attributes of. Messiah, the son of Mary. . In 1886, following a divine hint, Hadhrat Ahmad went to the town of Hoshiarpur and spent forty days in 'Chilla' which is a spiritual retreat. He spent his time in solitude, prayers and remembrance of. Allah. At the end of this period he received revelation about his great future and success. He was also given news about his promised son who would be blessed with both secular and spiritual knowledge and 22