Truth Prevails — Page 82
( 82 ) Also that: “Allah gave me the happy tiding of the fourth boy, and said that, undoubtedly, he would turn three into four. ” ( Anjam-i-A’thum page 182) Mr. Faruqi has also reproduced the following passage from Zamima Anjam-i-A’tham : “. . . Then there was another Ilham which was proclaimed on 20th February, 1886, and that was that God will increase three into four. At that time there was no sign of my three sons (Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, Mirza Bashir Ahmad, and Mirza Sharif Ahmad) who are present now, so it seemed that the Ilham meant that first of all three sons will be given, and then another one will be added who will make the number four. ” After giving this quotation, Mr. Faruqi writes: “Now after this in 1899, the fourth son (Mubarak Ahmad) was born. After his birth Hazrat Mirza Sahib wrote clearly in his book Tiryaqul Qulub : ‘This prophecy of increasing three into four was announced on 20th February, 1886, and after the birth of the three sons e. g. Mahmud, Bashir, and Sharif, it was again mentioned in Anjam-i-A’tham , and its Appendix, that as informed by God, the Promised Muslih (or reformer) who will increase three into four will now appear. ” A Dangerous Interpolation by Mr. Faruqi For Mubarak Ahmad, the fourth son, Mr. Faruqi accepts the passage in Zamima Anjam-i-A’thum as an identification based on Ilham and then he proceeds to introduce a serious, a grave interpolation into a passage from Tiryaqul Qulub , to the effect that after the words ‘making three into four’, he adds ‘i. e. Muslih Mau’ud’ , dishonestly on his own behalf, to create a wrong impression that, under this identification based on Ilham , the Promised Messiah had been led to hold Mubarak Ahmad, son born number four, to be the Muslih Mau’ud. Now this is very far from the true basic facts of the situation. The Promised Messiah, nowhere in his writings, neither in Zamima Anjam-i-A’tham , nor in Tiryaqul Qulub , has identified Mirza Mubarak Ahmad, the son born fourth to be the Muslih Mau’ud. We definitely claim that Mr. Faruqi can never show us, from Tiryaqul Qulub , that the Promised Messiah ever took up a definite position that Mubarak Ahmad was the promised son, destined to be the Muslih Mau’ud. This is how Mr. Faruqi builds up a web of a unjustified statements and conclusions, to leave an impression on the mind of the reader that in the eyes of the Promised Messiah, Mubarak Ahmad, the fourth son, under a firm identification done by Ilham , was to become the Muslih Mau’ud. The basic fact, which conclusively proves that here he is taking up an entirely false