Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 68
68 do not remember now, though I am certain that he is one of those whom I have mentioned in my announcement. ’ At another point, he announced, ‘God has given me the good news and said, “You will recognise the day of joy which will be closest to the day of the Eid festival. ”’ Hazrat Ahmad as pointed out that this verse referred to Lekh Ram and that he would meet his fate on the day next to Eid day. Lekh Ram did not seem to be at all frightened; his language became increasingly objectionable day by day. In reply to the above prophecy of Hazrat Ahmad as, he pre- dicted that Ahmad as instead would die of cholera within three years, for he was an impostor, and announced that this would be a sign of the truth of Aryah Samaj. At the time that Hazrat Ahmad as published this prophecy, he was over fifty years of age while Lekh Ram was only thirty. It so happened that five years after the publication of this prophecy, as the limit described in it was approaching, and doubts about the truth of the prophecy were being raised in some quarters, Lekh Ram was mysteriously attacked in his own house in Lahore. He was stabbed in the stomach with something sharp, severing his entrails at several places, on Saturday 6th March, 1897, which happened to be the day following that of Eid day. The assailant was described as a ferocious