Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad

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29 c~i;iracteri_zed (-Pid~ Epilogue to Brahin-i-A hmadlyy_a,. Part V, pp. 90 and 91). Then on May, 22, this revelation wa:;; rec~ived: "We have fulfilled ycur dream, and this is how W. e. a. lw:ays reward Our righteous servants. " (Badr, 1905, No. 7. ) This revelation as the Promised Messiah has described, also relates•to an earthquake. Says he: ''In connection with my p_rophecy r~garding an earth- qu~. _lrn, l have received to-day at five o'i:;lock in the 1IlOrnjag thi!i fresh revelation," that i!!, the revelation that has just· b~en quoted above (Badar, Vol. 5, No. 7). Then on May, :23, 1905 : "The earth shall i:>e tuq1ed upi!id. e down. Of a sudden shall I come with my a_rrn. ies to establish your truth. " i\11 the~e prophecies i::elate to th~ pro_p::iised ea_rthqua_), of the case cannot fail to convince any fair-minded person that such widely dissimilar events, having no manner of connection at all one with the other, and transpiring in places so far·flung from each other, could not have happened exactiy as they had been foretold eight and twenty years ago, unless the knowledge regardirrg them had proceeded interlinked from a ~ivine scurce. No mortal eye, as divorced from the foreknowledge which is given by God to His holy Messengers alone, can see and lay bare what -lies ·interlocked in the future. These predictions did q_ot proceed from a guess, nor the connection between the events mentioned in them was adventitious It was God Who had informed. the Pl'. omised. Messiah beforehand r_egarding these events, a,nd _it was lf is eternal will that had i~tercoiinflcte,d them in the sequence of time in which they have both come off. The Earthquake was Decreed to Occur in Sprin_g The third characteristic feature of this earthquake as mentioned in the prophecies of the Promis~d Messiah is thi\t it