Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 495
Laying to Rest Some Doubts 495 their repentance. Alas! How blind the people of this age are that the reply is given to them in accordance with the Book of God—again and again—yet they fail to understand! Was Prophet Y u nus not a true Prophet in their estimation—whose prophecy was without any condition and was a categorical prophecy that his people would be destroyed by a calamity within forty days, and yet that nation was not destroyed? In the case of the prophecies under discussion, however, the objection does not even arise as it would with regard to Y u nus’s prophecy. Here the prophecies about the death of ‘Abdull a h A tham, Ahmad Baig, and his son-in-law were conditional. It is surprising that, of the four prophecies, three have already been fulfilled. And ‘Abdull a h A tham, Ahmad Baig, and Lekh Ram are long dead in keeping with the prophecies, but these people still do not desist from raising objections. And they also object as to why an effort was made for the hand of Ahmad Baig’s daughter in marriage by offering inducements of differ- ent kinds. They do not understand that the effort was only with the intent that the divine decree be thereby put off and the calamity be averted. The same effort was made with regard to ‘Abdull a h A tham and Lekh Ram. How do they know that it is forbidden to make any legiti- mate effort for the fulfilment of any prophecy? Just ponder over it carefully and honestly whether it was not prom- ised to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in the Holy Quran that idolatry of Arabia would be wiped out and Islam would be established in place of idolatry, and a day would come when the keys of the Ka‘bah would be in the hands of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. He would give them to whoever he chose. And that God would do all this Himself. And yet efforts were made for the spread of Islam that need not be detailed here. In fact, there is an authentic hadith that if someone sees a dream and that dream can be fulfilled by his effort, he should fulfil that dream by his own effort.