Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 258
258 of Judgement. For instance, the following verse contains many signs of this age: َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا َو اَذِا ُلاَبِجْلا ْتَرِّيُس۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُمْوُجُّنلا ْتَرَدَكْنا۰۰۪ۙ اَذِا ُسْمَّشلا ْتَرِّوُك۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ْتَلِّطُع۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُشْوُحُوْلا ْتَرِشُح۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُراَحِبْلا ْتَرِّجُس۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُسْوُفُّنلا ْتَجِّوُز۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُةَدٗءْوَمْلا ْتَلِٕىُس۰۰۪ۙ ِّيَاِب ٍبْۢنَذ ْتَلِتُق۰۰ۚ َو اَذِا ُفُحُّصلا ْتَرِشُن۰۰۪ۙ َو اَذِا ُءٓاَمَّسلا ْتَطِشُك۰۰۪ۙ 16 ُمْيِحَجْلا ْتَرِّعُس۰۰َ۪ۙو اَذِا ُةَّنَجْلا ْتَفِلْزُا۰۰۪ۙ 1–2: When the sun is wrapped up; And when the stars are obscured; 3: And when the mountains are made to move. (Innovations will be made through which mountains will be cut down and tunnels will be built through them. ) 4: And the she-camels, ten months pregnant, are aban - doned. (The time will come when new modes of transport will be introduced and the camels will no longer be valued as before. ) 5: And when the beasts are gathered together. (People will become like beasts owing to their lack of religious knowl - edge. Likewise, it means that people who had previously been considered barbarians—such as the Europeans were up to about 700 years ago when the Asian civilisations were more advanced—will spread out and take over the nations of the world. It also means that some barbarian nations (such as the natives of Australia and America) will become almost extinct. 6: And when the seas are made to flow forth, one into the other. (Canals will be made to flow from the seas. ) 7: And when the people are brought together. (Such means of communications will appear that people living in far off