Favours of the Gracious God — Page 111
111 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS of the enemies were drawn from their scabbards. The free were made captive and their flesh was skewered and roasted over burning fire, then bitten, chewed, and swallowed. Doomsday has arrived and the violent flood of mischief has intensified and overwhelmed everything, breaching the dam; the calamity has become heavy, and catastrophes have descended and suddenly gripped everything; hail-stones fall upon the land of righteousness, and the heavens of virtue have become cloudy. Wrongdoing has stretched forth and its night became half spent; sins have made an incursion and launched an attack which has broken the ribs of virtue and pierced its chest with a spear; people have become seperated from their families, unrestrained and each his own master; the eyes of justice have become sore; the wounds of filth have become ulcerated; every insolent person is engaged in reviling; disorder has grown excessively, its arrows raining down from every direction; immorality has become wedded; and this relationship has produced daughters bearing similar traits. They have brought with them destitution and starvation and the land has been ruined. The rains of calamities poured down and there was none who could be saved from them; whether he sought refuge in Yemen or in Syria, or