The Descent of the Messiah — Page 249
1 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS 60 [continued] Meaning, "My Signs shall appear and their proofs shall appear more and more. " Then I received the revelation: لواء فتح Meaning, "The flag of victory. " Then the revelation was received: إِنَّمَا أَمْرُنَا إِذَا أَرَدْنَا شَيْئًا أَنْ نَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ Some five hundred people were informed beforehand of the prophecy that such a trial was coming but that there would eventually be exoneration and God's grace would become manifest. All these revelations are record- ed in my book Al-Bariyyah. They were told to people ahead of time, and the book Al-Bariyyah was written for them so that they would forever remember how clearly these prophecies, which had been told to them before the court case, had come to pass before their very eyes and with such clarity. This court case came about in the following manner: A man named Abdul Hameed, at the instigation of the Christians, submitted before the Magistrate of District Amritsar that he had been sent by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to murder Dr. Henry Martyn Clarke. Upon this, on August 1, the Magistrate issued a warrant for my arrest, hearing of which, my opponents came out and stood on the streets and the railway plat- forms in Amritsar and Batala so that they could watch my disgrace. However, God's decree manifested itself in such a way that, firstly, the warrant somehow was lost. Secondly, the Magistrate of Amritsar District realised that he had made an error in issuing a warrant for an- other district. Hence, on August 6, he telegraphed the Official in Gurdaspur District to immediately cancel the warrant, which surprised them because they had "It is Our way that when We determine a matter We say to it: Be; and it is. " [Publisher] 249