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HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS 64 [continued] the Hindu side, Lala Ram Bhajdat was the lawyer; and on the Christian side, it was Dr Henry Martyn Clark and all his people. Like in the Battle of Ahzab, all these com- munities attacked me together, but God disgraced them all and exonerated me. He made Abdul Hameed tell the truth, just as Zulaikha told the truth with respect to Jo- seph or the deceiving woman told the truth with respect to Moses. All this was done so that what this prophecy pointed to would come to pass بَرَّاهُ اللَّهُ مِمَّا قَالُوا ]Allah will clear him of that which they alleged). Living Witnesses: There are many witnesses to these prophecies, such as Munshi Taj- ud-Deen; Mir Nasir Nawwab; Maulawī Abdul Karim; Maulawī Sayyed Muhammad Ahsan; Maulawi Qutb-ud-Deen; Hafiz Abdul Ali, B. A. ; Mir Muhammad Ismail; Sahibzadah Manzoor Ahmad; and others. No Date of Prophecy 65 1886 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 I was once shown in a dream that the carpet in the house 1887 of Sheikh Mehr Ali¹, a chief of Hoshiarpur, had caught fire, and that I put out the fire by continuously pouring water on it. At once, God caused its true meaning to dawn upon me with great certainty: A great affliction would befall the Sheikh and his prestige, and it would only be removed through my prayer. I reported this dream to the Sheikh in a detailed letter. Six months lat- er, he became so seriously embroiled in a lawsuit that he was sentenced to death by hanging. At that critical time, upon the request of his son, I prayed for him and con- veyed to his son in writing the good news of his acquittal. He was thereafter acquitted. Living Witnesses: The witnesses to this Sign are Sheikh Mehr Ali himself, his sons, and hundreds of other people in the district of Hoshiarpur. See the February 25, 1893 announcement. 253