Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 605
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 605 forefathers were not forewarned of the impending chastisement, and so that the way of the guilty ones might become manifest; in other words, so that the guilty and those seeking the truth may become distinct. Similarly, at another place Allah the Exalted says, as is recorded in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya: دُنیا میں ایک نذیر آیا پر دُنیا نے اُس کو قبول نہ کیا لیکن خدا اُسے قبول کرے گا اور بڑے زور آور حملوں سے اُس کی سچائی ظاہر کر دے گا A Warner came unto the world, but the world accepted him not; yet God shall accept him and demonstrate his truthfulness with mighty assaults. [nadhīr— It is obvious that Allah the Exalted only uses the word warner] for such a Messenger in whose support it is destined that divine chastisement will overtake those who deny him. This is so because [nadhir] is said of the one who warns and that Prophet is called [nadhir] in whose time some chastisement is destined to descend. As such, when I was named [nadhir] twenty-six years ago in Barāhīn- e-Aḥmadiyya, it contained the unmistakable indication that in my divine chastisement would descend. Thus, in keeping with this proph- ecy, the chastisement of the plague and the earthquakes has indeed descended. time Some ignorant people object that since most of the people in Europe and America do not even know your name, why were they destroyed by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? The answer to this is that these people had become deserving that a punishment should descend upon them in this very world on account of their excessive sin- fulness and wickedness. Thus, consistent with His own practice, Allah the Exalted held back that punishment until the advent of a Prophet, but when that Prophet appeared and people had been duly invited and informed of his coming through thousands of announcements and pamphlets, the time came to punish them for their crimes. And it is absolutely wrong to say that people in Europe and America are not