An Admonitory Sign — Page 16
[ 16 ] from me all the more. And every time I called them that You mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped their garments around them and persisted in their iniquity , and behave with exceeding arrogance. Then I invited them to your path openly. Then I preached to them in public, and also spoke to them private. And I said, ‘Seek forgive- ness of your Lord; for He is exceedingly Forgiving. ’ Then is the prayer that I have intentionally left out because I do not wish to ask for Allah’s chastisement as Prophet Noah as did, which brought an end to his people. It is an extremely terrifying prayer. Prophet Noah as , as I have described earlier, would have never asked His Lord of it if God had not permitted it after informing him of the impending fate of his people. Anyway, history repeats itself, but not word for word. In it there are many warnings; there are many lessons such that prudent nations can benefit if they so choose. Not Able to Pray for the Leaders of the Apostasy Thus I do not like to invoke those prayers against my peo- ple that were invoked by Prophet Noah as against his people, nor do I permit the Ahmad i s in or outside Pakistan to pray against the Pakistani people. However the most that can be prayed for, since we have been left with no other choice, is that, ‘O God! Among the opponents of the Community