An Admonitory Sign — Page 7
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 7 ] defense and volunteers groups geared up. In the latter part of the night and the first half of the morning the evacuation of the population of the coastal areas took place especially from the Defense Housing Society that is quite spread out. It has several phases. From it hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated. More than half the population of Defense Housing Society vacated its homes. It all happened in such confusion that no one had the mind to take their belongings. Thus after this news, when I had a telephone contact with one Ahmad i family, they told me a very inter- esting incident to describe this storm. They said that when they got the news to evacuate immediately, this news had such ‘panic’ in it that when they came out without taking anything with them, his young daughter said, ‘ H u du r’s let- ters are left behind. We should at least take them with us. ’ He says that they ran back and picked up the letters so that, even if they could take nothing else, at least those letters would be saved. This was the state in which the evacuation of the population took place. But Allah showed mercy. Before this storm could play havoc on the widely spread coastal areas of Karachi, Allah changed the direction of the storm and this disaster was averted. An Incident of Extraordinary Significance As far as the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at is concerned, this event has gained an extraordinary importance also.