Kabul Witnesses a Sign — Page 5
53 quote. the rPromised Messiah himself. He writes: "The martyrdom that was decreed and destined for Shahzada Abdul La~if has come to pass ; the retribution of the tyrant only remains -~", W. ::. ,4,u r\"' ~1;1u t. . J'f'-'° "~> ol~. <. :/' "jl i. e, He who shal. l come before his Lord laden with crime, for him verily is Hell in which he shall neither live nor die. " The Arabic phrase ~ "_,. ::. . _,. ~u (neither shall he live nor: die) is used about a person under disgrace when he can neither be said to be living as he is deprived of all power, _nor can he be classed with the dead as he apparently breathes and moves. So the invocation of God's curse by the J?romised Messiah on Amir Habib Ullah Khan could only be considered to have been accepted if he or his posterity had been reduced to such miser· ~ble condition as to appear obviously as good as dead. Scene of the Battle of Badr re-enacted at Kabul In short, there is no doubt in the fact that the government which meted out to the i\hmadis a cruel treatment si~ilar to the one the Meccans had extended to the Muslims was the Afghan Government and it was this government on which the Promised Messiah had invoked God's blighting curse. So the above~mentioned revelation distinctly applies to this govetl). · ment. And as the revelation makes no- mention of any Muslirp. _army but refers only to the throwing of pebbles, it shows that the mise_ry ,and misfortune implied in the reve~ation to overtake;: Afghanistan were not to come. upon it through any Ahmadi army but God was to use for this purpose a people who apparently would be as worthless as pebbles or piece~ of stone. ~hat is to say, they would be possess- ing noreal inherent worth; only God would make. use. of them to fulfil His W!ll, Word 13-nd Purpose, And though a~ insigni~cant and useless as the pieces of stone or _particles of sand, yet God would make of them a. n instniment and a means of the ~anifestation of a mighty sign like that of Badr. ·In other words, though they might be 13mall in numbers and without equipment or provlSlon of any sort, and their enemy be powerful and well-equipped, ~hey would in consequence of the prayer of a Prophet offered long ago tear to pieces that Government and its officials. Now see how the prayer of the Promised Messiah was fulfilled. -When Amir Habib Ullah Khan did not repent of ·his sins, he