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country would con:tfnne to suffer from incessa,ht 'V!•arfar~::and disturbances, and Afghanistan, after being disrupted and disintegrated would become submerged in the neighbouring states. But the Decree of God had selected, about a quarter of a_ ce!1tnry ago, another person who was destined to suppress these forces of disruption, to bring order out of chaos and give Afghanistan an ordered and stable Government in the place of anarchy and disorder. This man was General Nadir Khan, who was at the time of the Bachcha-i-Saqqa menace lying sick in a nursing home in France. As Nadir Khan was an experienced and shrewd genera. I, re- peated invitations were sent to hitn by Amanullah's Governmenf at the time when Bachcha-i-Saqqa had rebelled and w. i}. ~ marching on Kabul. But ill-health prevent,ed him ~ro~ a~c_ept-· ing these invitations and he could not leave in time to h;eJp· Amanullah Khan to save his throne from Bachcha"'i-Saqqa. And how could be really come to Amanullah Khan's help when God had decreed it otherwise? Prophecy about Nadir Shah Explained The prophecy to which I have referred above was published· by the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1905 and was· based on the two revelations which he had received on May 3, 1905. 'The words of the r:evelations were(l) U rf· i. e. 11 Alas ! where is Nadir Shah gone!" The first mentioned revelation is, indeed, a verse of the Holy Quran which bears a pointed reference to the Battle of Badr. In that battle the experienced and seasoned commanders and generals of Mecca had mobilized all their power and had brought with them-the cream of their soldiery, one thousand picked and selected warriors to fight the Muslims. As compared with these fighters of note and reputation, the Holy Prophet was accompanied by only a fe,v soldiers, 300 all told, mos·t of whom. were quite inexperienced and had known no fighting before. Some of them were even without any arms. Rusty swords and broken spears were all that they had for arms. Very few had any animals to carry them. When the two armies stood face to face and the Meccan army, on account df'' their superior numbers, better equipment and greater war-experi~•·