Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 333
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 333 the divine prophecy is extraordinary, beyond human insight, and above human intellect. Can you claim that it does get diminished? If that is the case, I can produce before you a long list of prophecies in which eminent Prophets made errors of interpretation. However, I trust that you will not raise such an objection after this and that you will be cau- tious in view of the far reaching ramification of this objection. It is obvious that when a prophecy is fulfilled and, with its fulfil- ment, reveals its true meaning by itself, and, on comparing that mean- ing with the words of the prophecy, it is quite clear that it is the correct meaning of the words of the prophecy, it is not honesty then to find faults with it. Is it not true that the above revelation, indeed, means that buildings in a part of the country will collapse? This being so, how can the words of the revelation, in their apparent sense, apply to the plague? And when a calamity destroyed buildings, that very calamity must be considered to have been referred to in the prophecy. Does the plague ever cause buildings to collapse? Also, in a revelation prior to this prophecy, which was published just five months previously in the same newspaper, the word ‘earthquake’ is clearly mentioned. The words of that revelation were: ا �ّ ک ززلہل اك دھ Shock of earthquake. So is there any doubt that the news of the future earthquake has been given in the same newspaper? Now, you be the judge and consider whether the revelation:. عفت الدیار محلھا ومقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out]. in its literal sense applies to this prophecy of the earthquake, and it was mentioned beforehand too, or whether it applies to the plague. Moreover, the prophecy about the earthquake relates to the statement