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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad<br />

27<br />

أَ‏ تَعْجَبُ‏ لأِ‏ مْرِيْ‏<br />

And in doing so, he has himself opened the door to<br />

his own humiliation. In other words, he has fulfilled his<br />

own desire for instant disgrace. In fact, the time for swift<br />

dishonour was to start from 15 December 1898, but he<br />

has fallen into utter disgrace even earlier, which ought<br />

not to be called swift but rather, humiliation in advance.<br />

How so? Upon reading the above revelation at some<br />

occasion, the aforementioned Sheikh raised an<br />

objection in the presence of Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa, a<br />

resident of this city, and stated that the phrase in the<br />

أَ‏ تَعْجَبُ‏ لأِ‏ مْرِيْ‏ revelation 28 mentioned in the announcement<br />

contains an error in syntax, whereas the word of<br />

God cannot be with flaw; it should thus be:<br />

أَ‏ تَعْجَبُ‏ مِنْ‏ أمْرِ‏ ‏ْي<br />

This is the objection that has brought instant humiliation<br />

upon the Sheikh. For as I have proved with<br />

reference to the renowned poets of Arabia and even<br />

from the works of the most distinguished poets of the<br />

Jahiliyyah, the connective particle lam can be used with<br />

27<br />

Do you wonder at My command? [Publisher]<br />

28<br />

Ibid<br />

38

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