Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 336
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 336 ا �ّ ک ززلہل اك دھ Shock of earthquake. Then subsequent to it, this second revelation: عفت الدیار محلّھا ومقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out] describes the features of that very earthquake already mentioned in the same newspaper. This prophecy cannot apply to the plague in any way. Both of these revelations were published in the same newspa- per Al- H akam just five months apart. Tell me, is it obduracy or not to declare such a grand prophecy—which foretells this great calamity twice in the same newspaper, specifying the term ‘earthquake’ and its attributes—to be useless and absurd? If that is so, it is doubtful if you can remain faithful to Islam, for it is written, in authentic commentar- ies, that when the verse: 1 ُمَزْهُيَس ُعْمَجْلا َو َنْوُّلَوُي َرُبُّدلا was revealed, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said that he did not know what event that prophecy referred to. Later, at the great victory in the Battle of Badr, he said that he had now realized that this was the victory the prophecy had foretold. On one occasion he said that [in a vision] he was given a bunch of grapes and was told that it was for Ab u Jahl, but he was surprised that Ab u Jahl was so thoroughly evil that he was not worthy to enter Paradise. And he [the Holy Prophet s as ] did not comprehend its purport at 1. The hosts shall soon be routed and will turn their backs in flight ( S u rah al Qamar, 54:46). [Publisher]