Deliverance from the Cross — Page 123
for if thou do it not, thou will not have conveyed His message at all. God will safeguard thee against harm by people'. (al-Ma'idah, 5:68) The whole world knows that he was miraculously guarded all through his life; though his enemies tried every kind of stratagem to destroy him all their efforts were completely frustrated. Hazrat Ahmad also had received the divine promise: 'God will safeguard thee against harm by people' and in his case also the divine guarantee was completely fulfilled, though he possessed no means to ensure his own security against the devices of his opponents. He was all the time exposed to danger and his assassination could have been very casily compassed with impunity. As a contrast to the divine promise of security for the Holy Prophet mentioned in the Quran, there is an awesome divine warning against an impostor: 'Had he fabricated any saying and attributed it to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, and then surely We would have severed his large artery, and no one of you could have kept Us from it. (al-Haqqah, 69:45-49) This means that God would not let an impostor flourish and would surely destroy him. Commentators on the Holy Quran have all been agreed that these 123