A Verdict Required — Page 33
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS سَتَعْرِفُ يَوْمَ الْعِيدِ وَالْعِيْدُ أَقْرَبُ 33 Meaning that the incident of Lekh Ram's murder would transpire on a day which is closely connected to the day of Eid. ☆ Further, this prophecy that Lekh Ram's death would occur close to the day of Eid was such a well-known announcement on my part, that as soon as Lekh Ram died, the Hindus raised an uproar, saying that this man used to say from the start that Lekh Ram would die during the days of Eid, just as the newspaper Samāchār Punjab and the other Hindu newspapers were overly aggressive in stressing this. It appears that some mischievous Hindus, having heard these details of the prophecy directly¹ from me, but at the time considering this incident to be an impossibility, committed them to memory in order to condemn me on some future occa- sion. That is to say, they thought that such manifestly clear Signs would never come true, and so they would subsequently put me to shame. Nevertheless, when Lekh Ram was actually murdered on the second day of Eid, they sought to discredit these prophe- cies from another angle; that is, [they alleged] the date of Eid had 1. It is written in Dāmimah Punjab Samāchār dated 10 March 1897 con- cerning me that: He used to say that he would kill the Pandit, and that within this time period, and on such and such a day {i. e. the day following Eid} he would die in the most distressing state. As for the words, 'he would kill [the Pundit]', this was fabricated by the editor. The day and manner of death, however, was indeed a widely known aspect of our prophecy, which had undoubtedly been proclaimed on numerous occasions. Author