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HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS 3 [continued] No Date of Prophecy clined towards me, in fact I was not from those who were spoken of in the world. Therefore, for God to proclaim that you must not tire by seeing the large numbers of the creation of Allah, was fulfilled precisely twenty years after as manifested by the thousands of people who recently began to arrive in Qadian and are continuing to do so. 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 4 1880- 1882 This proph | أَصْحَابُ الصُّفَةِ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا أَصْحَابُ الصُّفَةِ - تَرَى أَعْيُنَهُمْ ccy was تَفِيضُ مِنَ الدَّمْعِ - يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْكَ رَبَّنَا إِنَّنَا سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِيًا يُنَادِي لِلْإِيْمَانِ وَدَاعِيَّا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَسِرَاجًا مُنِيرًا - أَمْلُوا - See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, page 242¹. Translation: "The Company of the Lounge, how will you know what the Company of the Lounge is? You will see their eyes run- ning with tears. They will call down blessings on you and will supplicate: 'Our Lord, we heard a crier who called people to reform and faith, and he called toward God and forbade us from shirk, and he was a lamp that spread light upon the earth. ' Write down all these prophecies for they will be fulfilled in due time. " There was no Lounge or Company of the Lounge at the time this prophecy was published in Barahin-e-Ah- madiyya. Following this, lounges and guesthouses were constructed for the earnest souls who relocated to Qa- dian. Consider what a marvelous prophecy it is that all of this was foreseen when no one could have envisioned such sincere individuals gathering in Qadian and lounges being built for them. fulfilled ten years after it was narrated. See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 2014. Islam International Publications Ltd. p. 209. [Publisher] 173