The Descent of the Messiah — Page 209
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS No Date of Prophecy 37 1883 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 The news about the death of Pandit Dayanand, the leader of the Aryas, was given three months before his death, and it was communicated to Lala Sharampat and other Aryas living in Qadian. See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, page 535¹. If these people are put under oath, they will surely tell the truth. I was pained by the death of Pandit Dayanand because he passed away before answering some of my questions. (1) One of the questions was that if transmi- gration-reincarnating into new lives according to one's past deeds, even becoming insects, dogs, or cats-is true and has bound them for millions of years, why have all of them not yet achieved salvation given there are only a finite number of souls? Does God not wish to grant them salvation, or do the Vedas not offer any teaching for salva- tion? Without certainty, man cannot desist from sin, and since the Vedas have not presented any means to bring about certainty regarding God, the Aryas do not have any definitive way to recognise Parmeshwar. It is perhaps for this reason that the insects have not yet achieved salva- tion. This was my first question. The (2) second question was that if an Arya woman can keep a lover beside her husband, does this constitute cuckoldry or not? The (3) third was that if God is not the Creator of the souls and the souls are able to find deliverance from sin at some point, then, according to the principle of the Vedas, the affairs of the world cannot continue forever and God would end up empty-handed, because the person who is delivered from sin will be beyond God's control as none Date Prophecy Fulfilled On October 30, 1883, some three months after the prophecy was related. 1 See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part IV, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 2016. Islam International Publications Ltd. p. 264. [Publisher] 209