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xx <strong>Barahin</strong>-e-ahmadiyya<br />
Ibn-e-Imran, in the dark night of my own ideas when suddenly<br />
I heard the voice from the unseen: Verily,<br />
I am your Lord.<br />
Thereafter, such secrets were revealed to me as I had<br />
not thought or imagined. Therefore, Allah the Almighty<br />
is now the Guardian and Manager of this book, both<br />
manifestly and intrinsically. I do not know what His will<br />
is as to its size. The fact is that the blessings of the divine<br />
origin of Islam which have been manifested up to Part<br />
IV are sufficient to bring the argument home. I hope that<br />
with His grace and munificence, He will continue to grace<br />
me with His support from the unseen till the darkness of<br />
doubts and suspicions is totally dissipated… (<strong>Barahin</strong>-e-<br />
<strong>Ahmadiyya</strong>, Part IV, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 1, p. 673)<br />
Under divine commandment, he founded the <strong>Ahmadiyya</strong> Muslim<br />
Jama‘at in 1889 and invited all the righteous to take the bai‘at<br />
(pledge of allegiance). Later, he claimed to be the same Mahdi<br />
and Promised Messiah whose advent had been prophesied by the<br />
Holy Prophet sa for the latter days.<br />
<strong>Barahin</strong>-e-<strong>Ahmadiyya</strong>, Part III records a dream which the<br />
Promised Messiah as saw in his early youth that is specifically<br />
related to <strong>Barahin</strong>-e-<strong>Ahmadiyya</strong>. He relates:<br />
My humble self saw Hadrat Khatamul-Anbiya’ [the Seal<br />
of the Prophets], may peace and blessings of Allah be<br />
upon him, in a dream in 1864 or 1865 in my early youth,<br />
when I was still pursuing my studies. In my dream I had<br />
in my hand a religious book which I felt was of my own<br />
authorship. Upon seeing the book, the Holy Prophet, may
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