Example of an Accepted Prayer, Anis-e-Hind of Meerut and an Objection to My Prophecy — Essence of Islam Vol. 5

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 5), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon Example of an Accepted Prayer, Anis-e-Hind of Meerut and an Objection to My Prophecy, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 5)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 5: Lekh Ram
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The humble one,
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadian, District Gurdaspur
20th February, 1893. Fourth: The following reply to an objection, recorded on the title page of Barakat-ud-Du‘a, along with a prophecy given in the footnote of page 4 of the title page: 21 All praise belongs to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger, Muhammad, the chosen one, the best of all the Messengers, and indeed the best of all creations, our master and the chief of all that is in heaven and earth. [Publisher] Lekh Ram remain in this connection, I consider such a presumption to be premature. I freely admit and reiterate that if, as the critics believe, this prophecy results in some ordinary fever or he [Lekh Ram] suffers a little pain or a bout of Cholera, after which he fully recovers, it will not be considered a prophecy, rather it will amount to fraud and deception, for no one is free from such illness and we all fall sick at one time or the other. In such a situation, I will still deserve the punishment that I have stated. But if this prophecy manifests itself in such a way that the signs of Divine wrath are clearly and openly witnessed, then let it be known that it is from God. The fact is that the inherent greatness and awe of a prophecy does not require that the time and day [of its fulfilment] should be fixed, and it is enough to set a time limit within which the punishment will come. When a prophecy actually reveals itself with appalling awe, it automatically draws hearts towards itself, and all the conjecture and criticism that prematurely take root in the hearts are so vanquished that people who possess judicious and sound judgement retract their previous ideas and are ashamed of them. Moreover I too am subject to the laws of nature. If I published this prophecy as a hoax, merely on the basis of presumptions and with some common ailments in mind, then the person who is the focus of the prophecy can likewise make a prophecy concerning me, based on similar presumptions. I am quite willing that instead of six years, which is the limit I have set for him, he may stretch it to ten years in my case. Lekh Ram at present would be no more than thirty years old. He is a well-built young man enjoying excellent health, and I, on the other hand, am more than fifty years old, weak, chronically ill, and suffering from several ailments. Nevertheless, the contest will make amply clear as to which is the word of a mortal and which is the word of God Almighty. The critics’ contention that this is no longer the age for such prophecies, is no more than a assertion commonly uttered by people. I, however, believe that this is the age for the acceptance of the immutable and perfect truths and verities, and there has probably never been such an age. It is true that no fraud or deceit can remain hidden in this age, but this is all the more pleasing for the righteous, because only a person who knows how to differentiate between truth and falsehood can truly appreciate the truth and embrace it with joy and eagerness. There is such attraction in the truth that it draws people towards itself. Evidently, people of this age are accepting hundreds of new facts which their forefathers did not accept. If the people of the age are not thirsty for the truth, then what is the reason for the beginning of such a wonderful revolution? The present age is undoubtedly a friend, and not foe, of the truth. To say that this is the age of wise people, and gone is the time of the simple-minded, amounts to the condemnation of the age…Aryas, however, are at liberty to
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