Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 311
311 ُ لِمَن ِ الْمُلْك اعَۃِ. َّ یُرِیْکُم ُ ہللا ُ زَلْزَلَۃ َ الس اعَۃِ. َّ اُرِیْك َ زَلْزَلَۃ َ الس یَار ُ کَذِکْرِیْ. ِّ عَفَت ِ الد 38 ارِ. َّ ِِّٰ الْوَاحِد ِ الْقَھ لل َ َوْم ي ْ ال Houses will disappear even as all thought of Me has disap - peared. You will see the earthquake of the appointed day. Allah will show you the earthquake of the appointed day. Dominion on that day will be for the One, Supreme God. The ‘earthquake’ mentioned in the prophecy was described by the Promised Messiah as in some detail in an Urdu poem according to which the earthquake was to bring destruction to human beings, habitations and fields. A man caught naked will not have time to dress. It will be particularly hard on travellers. Many will stray far from their appointed routes to escape the terrors of the earth - quake. Depressions will be produced on the earth. Streams of blood will flow. Streams of water running downhill will become red with blood. The calamity will involve the whole world. All men, great and small, all governments, will break under its impact, and the Czar, in particular, will be reduced to a state of misery. Even birds will lose their senses and forget their songs. It was also revealed to the Promised Messiah as that ‘Boats sail that there may be duels’, and ‘Raise the anchor’. 39 The Promised Messiah as wrote that all this would happen in about sixteen years. An earlier revelation hinted that the calamity was to take place in his lifetime but then he was taught the prayer, ‘O God, do not let me see this earthquake. ’ Hence, the Great War took place within sixteen years of the publication of the prophecy but not within his lifetime. As I said earlier, the prophecy uses the word ‘earthquake’ but it in fact refers to the Great War, for the following reasons: