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1 THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH when I was all alone; I had no visitors and there was no guesthouse. The entire village knows of these circumstances. Who would be so faithless as to deny this and say that the hundreds of people who are arriving and staying now were also present at that time? Study the Post Office records and see whether I received such financial contributions before and whether people came to me in such numbers. As for the respectable gentle- men who are witnessing with their own eyes the mighty fulfilment of this prophecy of old, I will name some of them here as eyewitnesses: Maulawī Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen of Bhera; Maulawi Abdul Karim Sialkoti; Maulawi Muhammad Ali, M. A. ; Nawwab Muhammad Ali Khan of Malerkotla; Khawaja Kamal-ud-Deen, B. A. , Pleader; Mir Nasir Nawwab Dehlwi; Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi, Mirza Khuda Bakhsh of Jhang; Seth Abdur Rahman, Madras; Maulawi Mubarak Ali of Sialkot Cantt; Sheikh Rahmatullah, a businessman of Bombay House, Lahore; Khalifah Noor-ud-Deen of Jammu; and more than ten thousand other witnesses. No Date of Prophecy 3 1880- 1882 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 لَا تُصَعِّرْ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ وَلَا تَسْتَمْ مِنَ النَّاسِ Date Prophecy Fulfilled This proph- See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya page 242¹. Translation "The ecy was creation of Allah shall incline towards you; you ought categorically not to turn away from it nor tire from its large numbers. " and fulfilled in The glad-tiding was given in this revelation that people completeness shall come to you in the form of one army after another, when the and shall come in such frequency that one, owing to hu- Plague visited man nature, may become tired due to constant meetings the Punjab. taking place and one may become weary of large crowds. You must not become weary or agitated owing to large crowds of people. One may, to whatever degree he wishes, prove from the time of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, upon which twenty or twenty-two years have passed, that people had not in- See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 2014. Islam International Publications Ltd. p. 209. [Publisher] 172