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HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS name of Sharampat is also a witness to it. The said Arya took this revelation of mine in a letter to the late Hakeem Muhammad Sharif Kalanwari at Amritsar, and there a signet was made by a seal maker. Friends and children of the Hakeem also know of these cir- cumstances. If anyone ponders over this with a bit of decency and tries to find out what my circumstances were twenty-eight years ago when my father was alive, and how God Himself sustained me after the revelation, "Is not God sufficient for His servant?" I can- not believe that anyone would deny this miracle, unless he was utterly without shame. No Date of Prophecy The Revelation that I have been graced with has disclosed to me these miraculous prophecies that have already ap- peared in the world, and thousands of witnesses attest to them, some of which have been mentioned here Date Prophecy Fulfilled 1 2 1880 to 1882 لَا تَيْنَّسْ مِنْ رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ الَّا إِنَّ رَوْحَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ آلَآ إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ يَأْتِيكَ مِنْ كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ يَنْصُرُكَ اللَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ - يَنْصُرُكَ رِجَالٌ نُوحِي إِلَيْهِمْ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ لَا مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ See page 241 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, published in 1880 and 1882, Safir-e-Hind Press, Amritsar¹. Transla- tion: Despair not of the mercy of Allah, that is, do not imagine that no one pays attention to you or helps you. Hearken, indeed the mercy of Allah is near. Hearken, the help of Allah is near. Help will come to you through a path that shall never close, rather, many people will come to you that the track on which they travel will become deep. This metaphor is meant to convey that the constant flow of people will never end. This prophecy is from the time when no one, aside from a few old acquaintances, knew me. The government had not anticipated that I would be able to establish such a vast community. Nor could any of the people of this country predict with cer- tainty that one day such extraordinary progress would Twenty years after this prophecy, the help of God and the flow of people has been mani- fested in every way. See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 2014. Islam International Publications Ltd. p. 208. [Publisher] 169