The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 14
14 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD the authenticity of the revelation. They cannot be held accounta- ble if their inferences turn out to be false or contrary to the facts, because these are their own views and not the Word of God; though the ordinary people could fall prey to such a mistake. But as things stand, now there is no room left for one to make such an absurd objection, for in the same Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya I had been declared the Promised Messiah twelve years before I actually made the claim. For a reasonable person, this furnishes an evident proof of my truth. The mention in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya of the second coming of Hadrat Isa could have misled an ignorant person only if there had not been any mention of myself being the Promised Messiah. But this was so clearly recorded that the maulawīs in Ludhiana, such as Muhammad, Abdul Aziz, and Abdullah, had raised objections at that very time accusing me of naming myself 'Īsā and ascribing all those prophecies that referred to 'Isā to myself. Responding to the objections, Maulawi Muhammad Husain wrote in his review that the objections were uncalled for, as the same Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya contained my endorsement of the second coming of Hadrat Īsā. May I be sacrificed at the wisdom of Almighty God! With what profundity, He prepared the means of my exoneration beforehand. If there had simply been no mention in Barāhīn- e-Ahmadiyya of the second coming of Hadrat 'Isā, and had the book spoken only of me as the Promised Messiah, the agitation which began after several years and the edicts of disbelief that were prepared later would have been prepared right at the time of the publication of Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya. Conversely, if Barāhīn had mentioned only the second coming of Hadrat Masīh without