Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 430
430 the holy (Duran refers when it says : " And We sent Messengers , ! ' ' J *. ' ' '. . . . . O ; to peoples' before thee and afflicted the people with famine and disease that they might become humble," -(vi, 43). Again, ''And, "V^e raised not a Prophet in any place. but seized the people thereof with famine and disease that the people might become humble. '- 7 ' (vii, 96). - ,,. '. . . :. . . 1 It. goes without saying that the people of < this age. are wholly engrossed in worldliness. and have turned their back upon God; They are. farther from the path of God. ' Atheism and materialism^ reign everywhere. Corruption and vice run rampant, -True faith has altogether :been. obliterated from the surface of the globe,. Should not have. God. raised. a Prophet at:this time of need as He used to do in the days of yore ? And should He have been so unjust as to send visitations without, sending a. Warner ?; Did Se violate His unchangeable law? No, He is not unjust, He is not one to violate His law-. He is most merciful and most truth- ful. He has sent a Prophet, Ahmad of Qadian, in -fulfilment of the prophecies of all the great prophets of the world, This Jholy Prophet prophesied about the visitations and calamities long be^ fore they came upon the world. . One of these prophecies was published in the Beview of Religions for October 1906, under the hbadings "A Prophecy that all men should know. " It runs as follows : "Bear in mind that Almighty God has informed me of earth-- quakes in general. Know it for certain, then ,that as earthquakes have come in America, "Europe,. and Africa in accordance with my former prophecies, more will yet occur in diverse places some of which would be so severe that the destruction wrought by them will be unparalleled- in the world's history and will remind one of the destruction of the day of the judgment. Death wijl make such havoc that streams of blood will flow. In fact, so great