Kabul Witnesses a Sign — Page 17
d~scribipg Nadir Khan as N:adir Shah aud ·RS is evide. nt froril the· statement of Sardar Shah Wali Khan, a ·brother- and -mihis- te:r of the late King, N:adir Shah was the official designation· by· which he was known, So,. 0 ye people, who fear God and believe in' death and' the Resurrection ! Tell me, in God's name, \\-hi~ power had caused this obvious impossibility to be translated into a concrete and settled fact-a fact which was considered even by an enemy of the Ahmadiyya :Movement to be quite impossible_ to occur as it most certainly was? Was it. not God the'. Almighty who· had, in His revelation to the· Promised Messiah, on May 3', 1905, named Nadir'_ Khan as Nadir Shah about a quarter of. a century before?- Would you, even after the fulfi. . lment pf such a. -mighty sign persist in disbelieving and-continue rejecting Goq's Messenger? Would you still refuse to become recon. ciled·with God,5your Beneficent and Compassionate Creator and Mast~r-;a,ng would_ you replain conteQ. t to welter and wallow in the aiough and quagmire of atheism, disbelief and. go4lessness ( If such powerful, clear a:nd unequivocal signs, which even arr irrecon-· citable enemy confessess to be. impossible of _happening, do ii. of and cannot conv. ince you, what trea. . tment do you exp·ect God to mete out to you ? Nadir Shah's Death Mourned (9) Among a rough and rugged people like those of Afg~arii~tan even after a person rises to power and· actually holds the· sceptre it cannot be guraranteed that he will continue to' command the confidence, respect and affection of his people, Passions are easily excited in that country and affection beco_mes readily changed into enmity. It would not at all have l>een surprising if after capturing the throne of Afgha~istan Nadir Shah had fallen in the estimation of his people or had faile~ to be able to keep peace and order in the country and disorder and disruption had increased. But the revelation '-!. . )·/ vl!; llU •T (Alas, where is Nadi. r Shah gpne !) clearly sho~ed that by the time Nadir Shah's tragic death occurred, his people -yvould have come to :i!-ppredate and realize the worth of the solid work done by him and therefore his sudden and. sa~ demise would plunge the whole country into intense sorrow arid grief. . _ _ To p~edict the. rise to ~~j Jhtone,"10~ 1. an o~?ina~y- ~e~s~~ ~y 1~elf cons-t1tutes·· •a·· great sign:-· Bat · to·"'Pttdiet- 1 -l Hi""'add1tion;~