Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 318
318 Another sign was that the structures which Europe was trying to build would be demolished. It so happened that, apart from destruction from the physical structures, European culture was also shaken to its core. Europeans are trying to rebuild on those foundations but all efforts seem to fail. The world will see that the pre-war European and Western culture will no longer work and they will be replaced by new values and traditions that will ulti - mately draw the people of the West towards Islam. This has been decreed by God and nothing can stop it. Another important sign mentioned in the prophecy was that the people of Israel would be saved from their tribulations. This, too, was fulfilled. During this war, and as a consequence of it, Mr (later Lord) Balfour declared that the people of Israel who had been without a ‘homeland’ would be settled in their ancient ‘homeland’ of Palestine. Allied nations promised to do away with all the injustices that the people of Israel had to face in the past. Accordingly, Palestine was taken from Turkey and declared the home of the Jews. The governance of Palestine is being shaped in a way that will make it easy for Jews to make it their homeland and Jews from all over the world are being gathered there. Thus, an old demand of the Jews—that conditions promoting their national cohesion be created for them—has been met. The strangest thing about this part of the prophecy is that references to it are also found in the Holy Quran. In S u rah Ban i Isr a ‘ i l, we read: 42 َّو اَنْلُق ْۢنِم ٖهِدْعَب ْۤيِنَبِل َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا اوُنُكْسا َضْرَاْلا اَذِاَف َءٓاَج ُدْعَو ِةَرِخٰاْلا اَنْئِج ْمُكِب اًفْيِفَل And after him (the Pharaoh) We said to the children of Israel, ‘Dwell ye in the land; and when the time of the