The British Government and Jihad — Page 20
20 orchard at your home. Has the earth not undergone a revolution? Just as there is an astounding upheaval on earth, God also wills that an astounding upheaval take place in the heavens. Both of these are signs of the days of the Messiah. The revelation below, mentioned twenty years ago in my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, alludes to these signs: 10 This means that the heavens and the earth were tied up like a bundle and their elements were hidden. God has untied both of these bundles in the days of the Messiah and has revealed their secrets 11. As I have detailed extensively in this booklet, the tradition prevalent among Muslims of attacking the people of other reli- gions, which they call jihad , is not the jihad of Divine religious Law [ Shar i ‘ah ]. Rather, it is a grievous sin and a violation of the clear instructions of God and His Prophet sa. It may not be easy for certain Muslims to abandon this custom since it is well- established among some tribes. In fact, because they imagine themselves to be gh a z i s 12 , they may even become the mortal enemies of one who counsels them against this practice and seek to kill him. One solution that I can think of to this problem is that His Majesty, the Am i r of Kabul 13 , whose influ- 10. See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , R u h a n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, p. 611. [Translator] 11. Is it not a fact that the secrets of the earth have been revealed in this age and thousands of new facts and discoveries relating to the properties of things and new inventions are being made? Why should the secrets of the heavens then remain closed? Re- garding the secrets of the heavens, previous Prophets had fore- told that: Even children and women would receive revelation from God in the time of the Promised Messiah. [Author] ِ َ ْ َْ َ ِ ٰ ٰ َ ُ َ ْ َ َ َ ً ْ َ َ َ