Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 246
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 246 ززلہل اك داكھ Shock of earthquake will take place. And then, five months later, on 31 May 1904, the magnitude and the force of this jolt has been described in this divine revelation: عفت الدیار محلھا ومقامھا Meaning that, it will be such a jolt as to destroy the dwellings in a part of the Punjab, and no trace will be left of the buildings, whether they be temporary abodes—like the Hindu temples of worship in Dharamshala and Kangra—or the permanent abodes as were the places of perma- nent dwellings in Dharamshala and Kangra etc. Answer me now regarding that Doomsday which you imagined was so far off—claiming that I would not be able to present such a revelation till Doomsday—whether that Doomsday descended upon you or not? Everyone can appreciate that the ‘Day of Doom’ certainly seized you, since the prophecy regarding the earthquake that you deny is clearly recorded in Al- H akam of 24 December 1903, page 15, column 2. Just open your eyes and read it; then drown yourself in shame! Thus, it was to define the characteristics of this very earthquake that the revelation عفت الدّیار [ ‘afatid-diy a r— ‘residences will be wiped out’] followed the first revelation. Has Doomsday not befallen you yet? And should you say that all people will die on Doomsday yet you are still alive, the reply is that you have—in fact—died the death of humil- iation, for this physical life is nothing after spiritual death. Can that person be deemed ‘alive’ who had so vehemently claimed that there is absolutely no mention of the earthquake in the prophecy and had so arrogantly insisted that, till Doomsday, I would not be able to present any such prophecy mentioning the earthquake, whereas thereafter the prophecy was produced mentioning the earthquake in explicit terms