So to the believers, God bestows his blessings and in some form of revelation or dreams, he tells the people in one form or the other, as Huzoor expressed during the sermon today, some glad tidings and some other news which are going to happen in the future. On the other side of it is the enemies or the opponents of those believers. Does God tell them as well something about them or something about the community who is going to prosper later on? If so, why don’t they proclaim it? Does it happen equally to the enemies as well? What happens? Allah tells them? Some sort of, yes, that they are not going to be successful, like God tells them. No, they are told by the mouth of the Prophet or by the mouth of his messenger in whatever capacity he is speaking. But they are not directly told.
On the other hand, they invent things and they attribute things to Allah and later on the events which follow prove them to be false. For instance, Lekhram, when he challenged the Prophet, he concocted his own revelations against the Prophet and said that you are false and I am right. Allah has told me that he has not spoken a word to you and he has spoken to me and he has told me that this and that is going to happen to you. And in one of those prophecies which he made against the Messenger of Allah, apart from the filthy language he uses, he says that my Allah has told me that within three years you will be totally destroyed and wiped out.
And you say that a promised son will be born to you, but my God has told me that not even a rat would be born to you, not to mention a human being. And if somebody who is born, and this is Allah’s language, if at all somebody is born, he would be imbecile and meaningless and he would live only a few days and then he will die. And after three years there will not be anyone in Qadian who will remember your name. And that is what is going to happen according to my God, God of Vedas and so on. So he also published a prophecy, only the events told later on what was to happen.
And this is sometimes Ahmadis wonder, why six years were given to him? Why not a prophecy about his death much sooner than to permit him to live for six more years? So one of the reasons is that Allah wanted to establish it to him, that your twice as much proved false. You said three years, you live another three years and you will see that within your sight, the Promised Messiah is prospering and you die a totally defeated death. Yes, maybe I did not make my question clear, although your answer was much more comprehensive.
As Allah tells the believers, the success of them and the failure of the enemies does something of this sort. Will you please repeat this again? I missed some point which I don’t want to miss again. Allah tells some of the believers their success, it is going to happen at a certain time, and the failure of the opponent. Does Allah also in some form would like to or does he reveal the same thing to the enemies of their own failure and the success of the believers? This is what exactly I have answered. I said Allah tells them of their failure through his dear ones. He does not speak to them because Allah does not care to speak to such people. But they invent things and attribute them to Allah.
So as far as the public observation is concerned, there are two types of revelations. Only the time tells which revelation was really from Allah and which one was not. So as far as our outside view is concerned, we can say that yes, both people claim that Allah has told them. Like Dowie, he also claimed that Allah had told him something. The Promised Messiah claimed on the other hand.
So for a neutral observer to begin with, it is very difficult to say which party is right and which is wrong. But one thing is certain again that Allah speaks to one only, not to both parties, because then Allah’s messages could not come into clash with each other. So that is again established, even if the two claims are made, in reality there has to be just one which is true.
