Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 237
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 237 has tried unjustly to cover up the bright day and has employed great dishonesty. He has read my announcements and knew full well that the words of my prophecy regarding the earthquake were not dull and ordinary as the words of the Gospel. Nonetheless, he wilfully chose to remain obdurate. Who does not know that the Arabic revelation: عفت الدیار محلھا ومقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out] narrates startling news in the form of a prophecy that is enough to make people tremble. Is it an ordinary affair that towns and villages would sink into the earth? And it has been detailed in Urdu that this would be: ززلہل اك داكھ Shock of earthquake. See the newspaper Al- H akam, page 15, column 2, dated 24th December 1903. And then it has been written in the tract A m i n, which was published in 1901, that it would be a calamity that would remind of Doomsday. And it had been published in Al- H akam of 24th March 1904, that the sceptics would be shown a Sign. And then it is written in the announcement Al-Andh a r that the impending earthquake would be an apocalyptic earthquake. And it is written in An-Nid a that the earth would be turned upside down by the impending earthquake. Then, it is written in the same that this great calamity would bring to mind the calamity of Doomsday. Then, in the same, God Almighty says that: ‘I shall descend upon the earth for you to show My Signs. For you, We shall show the Sign of the earthquake and We shall demolish the buildings that the heedless people erect or will erect in the future. And I shall manifest the Sign that will cause the earth to tremble. Then that day will be a day of wailing for the world. ’ Then, in the announcement entitled, ‘News of the Earthquake for the Third Time’, it is written with