Kabul Witnesses a Sign — Page 11
. u Nadir Khan's Illness (4) When Bachcha-i-Saqqa raised the standard gf revolt; Nadir 'Khan was lying sick in f. rance. But in spite··. :'of his broken health he left for India to help anc;l serve his mother- 'lan·d in the hour of its distress. qn, arriving, however, in India he fell seriously ill and remained confined to hfo bed in. P. eshawar and could not proc. eeq to Afghanistan at once. The result was that he could nC!t join Amanullah Khari in his desperate efforts to save his throne from Bachcha<~i~Sii. qqa. ·1£ he had not been taken ill and had joined Amanullah Khan at once in his struggle against Bachcha·i-Saqqa and had ·defeated him, Amanullah Khan would evidently have. . rell}ai. n~d King of Afghanistan and all possibility for Nadir Khan Jo have become the Shah of that country would have been totally -eliminated. But God prolonged his illness and. did. not ·giv:e him victory over Bachcha-i-Saqqa until. Amaunllah. KJ:ill. . Q~ after suffering a crushing defeat,. made -a burried: ". exit from Afghanistan. The protracted illness of Nadir. . Khan·"· ,in 1 Peshawar i'lnd his inability to proceed at once ta Afgha~jstan was a divine plan to fulfil the Promised Messiah'$ prophec:y ~~~ constituted, thus, by itself a remarkable and sta. hding miracle. No Desir" fol'. Throne (5) From the announcernen'ts that NadirShah madeat th~ time when he was struggiing bard to rescue-· Af~hanistan· ·froro the strangle-hold of Bachcha-i-Saqqa and his. band of ·brigand~;. i. . t appears that the idea never en~ered his h_eiid tha~. even if· ·he succeeded in turning out the Bachc::JiaJ1e would. :himself asce;n_c;l. the throne of Afghanistan. As long as Amanullah Khan was ,in the country he continued to support him and when the latter gave up the struggle in despair and left Afghanistan; Nadir K:han took special care to m:ike it clear in all his announcements and p~oclamations that he did not seek self-aggrandisement, that he had no desire for the throne of Afghanist~n and that a_fter the successful termination of the life and 9. ~~th, str~g:g_l~ in which he was engaged with his waiq an. 4 might he would loyally submit to the decisioQ,, ~t. \yJii~·l::i~. . . . 'the elected representatives of Afghanistan would ardve after takipg counsel together as to the. form the Juture, gove~n)l),e. n_t _ 9£. Ni!1~pistan sqould take. This. 1 si19w. s,P:e~. oripJh~-~~~d. Q. 'Y. :-,pf ·a. . . - ;. ,