Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 109
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 109 one, in order to incite the people. Perished be the two hands of Ab u Lahab1 ٭ through whom that fatwa was written. Although writing is the work of one hand, the other is its accomplice. And by perished it is meant that he will remain frustrated in achieving the objective of his issuing the religious verdict. And then He says: ‘He too has perished. ’ In other words, he was guilty of a grave sin which in reality amounts to perishing. This is why his attention was turned towards the world and continued to lose the sweetness of faith. ‘It did not behove him to interfere in this matter except with extreme cau- tion’; meaning that if he was in doubt he should have tried to settle his doubts privately, showing due reverence, instead of becoming an enemy and emerging forth in conflict. And then He says that what- ever hardship befalls you shall be from God; that is to say, if God had not so willed, this mischief could not be perpetrated. He then says that during that time, an immense uproar and a great mischief will arise in the world, so you should endure with patience just as all the resolute Messengers had endured with patience. However, keep in mind that this trial will not be from that individual; rather, it shall be from God Almighty that He might love you all the more, for this love from God is a favour that will never be wrested from you thereafter. Then, making another prophecy He says: ‘Two goats shall be slaughtered’—referring to Miy an ‘ Abdur-Ra h m a n and Maulaw i ‘Abdul-La ti f who were stoned to death in Kabul—‘and everyone who is upon the earth shall ultimately die and the advisability of these inci- dents of martyrdom which is known to God, is not known to you’— meaning, that the slaughter of these two shall ultimately yield the fruit of goodness for you; God knows whatever good will arise in the land of Kabul through these deaths. 1. ٭ Ab u Lahab here means the ‘Father of Fuelling a Fire’. In other words, he— the writer of the Religious Verdict—will actually be the ‘father’ of the fire of takf i r [declaration of disbelief ] that shall rage in this country. (Author)