Kabul Witnesses a Sign — Page 7
'f pomp and glory. It 1s quite obvious that if Bachcha-i-Saqqa had ruled in Kabul longer than he actually did, there would have arisen niany opportunities for Amanutlah Khan to regain his lost throne, because the Bachcha was a complete stranger to adminis• terihg the affairs of a State. He was also disposed to be harsh a:rid severe and his lieutenants and companions could, like pieces of stone, only pierce and prick, but to do any useful public work was beyond their power and capacity. Ar. d when Bachcha-i-Saqqa had served the purpose he was decreed to serve-the fulfilment of a part of the Promised Messiah's prophecy-God's help and grace aiso ceased to accompany him. But God had willed that after taking from Bachcha-i-Saqqa the work he was destined to do, the wish and desire of His Messenger and Prophet- that Amir Habib Ullah's posterity should live a life of oblivion and misery like those dead and for· gotten-should be fulfilled by some other person. He selected Nadir Khan for that purpose and informed the Promised Messiah of it along with the above-mentioned prophecy in the words. ti. ,,t,/ vl. :. ;. ,u •T i. e. "Alas ! where is Nadir Shah gone I " (May 3, 1905). This revelation in conjunction with the one dealt with above, indicated that after the happening of the first event (defeat of Amanullah Khan by Bachcha-i-Saqqa) Nadir Khan would become the Shah of Afghanistan and that after a brief rule his death would take place like a sudden and totally unexpected calamity-a veritable bolt from the blue-which would make, as it were, the whole Afghan nation cry out 11 Alas, where is Nadir Shah gone!" And so did it exactly come to pass. By causing Bachcha-i-Saqqa to suffer a defeat at the hands of General Nadir Khan God paved the way for the fulfilment of the second part of the prophecy announced on May 3, 1905 and in this way He arranged that Amanullah Khan should never be able to regain his lost throne and thus Heaven's decree should come into force regarding Habib Ullah Khan's descendants that 11 they shall neither live nor die. " It was foretold in the revelation that after the pebbles and particles of sand (followers of Bachcha-i-Saqqa) had served their pre-destined and fore-ordained purpose, God would bring about such changes as would culminate in a man named Nadir Khan asc~nding the throne of Kabul who, in this way, would deprive the line of Habib Ullah of it peri;nanently and for ever, thereby making tbe'·Quraiiic verse ~ii_,~&~»