A Verdict Required — Page 49
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 49 Ram's death would occur on a Sunday, because the angel who came to punish Lekh Ram appeared to me on the night of Sunday. From this, it was understood that the day of Lekh Ram's death would be a Sunday. And it had also been disclosed in the revelation that this event would occur on the day attached to the day of Eid; that is, on the second of Shawwāl. It is God's omnipotence that the Hindus had thoroughly memorised the reference to Eid [in the prophecy] well in advance. However, dismissing this incident as an impossibility at the time, they had memorised it only with the intention of giving me the lie, insofar as they were under the impression-in their ignorance-that such a specific Sign in the prophecy could in no wise come to fruition and be proven true. Thus, their purpose for committing it to memory was that when the prophecy would fail, or not be fulfilled on Eid, they would mock and ridicule it. However, when God fulfilled the prophecy exactly as it had been written, the Hindus immediately changed their stance and claimed: A conspiracy had already been hatched to commit murder on Eid. Otherwise, it is not the wont of God to reveal such detailed and distinct Signs of the unseen to anyone. Nevertheless, that All-Powerful God, who does not want to cast doubt on the truth, had already refuted this notion, of which the Hindus were unaware; that is, He had announced this Sign seventeen years before the occurrence of Lekh Ram's murder in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya. This information had been written and published at a time when Lekh Ram would have been about twelve (12) or thirteen (13) years old. It is present in such an organ- ised and sequential manner in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya that one has no choice but to accept it. I have, by the grace of the Almighty, already written about this in the treatise Sirāj-e-Munir. A brief