Scattered Pearls — Page 35
. 34 hands of the Promised Messiah in the above mentioned case would not come to be lowered or obscured in any way. For, at the time when the occurrence took place, it was beyond the power of man, and of the medical. I science, to encompass the result achieved by the Promised. Messiah through prayer. . It should also be remembered, at the same time, that some miracles are of a kind that their miraculous nature stands for all times, a repetition of the performance being impossible for other human beings, under all circumstances. . As an instance of this kind of miracle, there is the miraculous nature of the Holy Quran, it being impossible for all men, for all times, that anybody should ever be able to produce a scripture of similar excellence and grandeur from the point of view of its matchless literary style and its matchless unrivalled contents. Similar is the case of those prophecies which are intended to bear out the power and grandeur of God; or cases of the acceptance of prayer in a mubaahilah etc. ; or the grand miracle of the fact that the Apostles of Allah and their followers always finally come out victorious in the struggle against their enemies and opponents. The Promised Messiah, we must remember, was vouchsafed miracles of all these kinds. 16. The hostility which the Arya Samaaj bore for the. Promised Messiah is well known to all. These people suffered defeats at the hands of Hazrat Ahmad in every field, but owing to their eternal hardness of heart, they continued to increase in their enmity towards the Promised. Messiah. A member of this Samaaj was a native of. Qadian, Lala Sharampat by name. He was in close contact with the Promised Messiah whom he used to see frequently; and he was a witness to the fact of certain prophecies having been made by Hazrat Ahmad, and