Lecture Sialkot — Page 65
L ECTURE S IALKOT 65 Moreover, God is under no obligation to fulfil prophecies which bear warnings. The prophecy of Prophet Jonah as testifies to this and all Prophets as agree that Divine Will which is revealed in the form of warning may be averted through prayers and alms- giving. If this were not so, prayers and alms-giving would be a futile exercise. I will now conclude by offering my gratitude to God Almighty Who has enabled me to write this lecture de- spite my illness and physical weakness. I pray before God Almighty that He may cause this lecture to be a means of guidance for many. Just as you have physi- cally come together in this place, may God in the same way invest your hearts with mutual attachment and love, and may He cause the winds of guidance to blow on all sides. Eyes cannot see anything without heav- enly light. May God send down spiritual light from the heaven so that the eyes may see. May He create an air out of the unseen so that the ears may hear. None can come to us but he whom God draws towards us. In- deed, He is drawing many and shall continue to do so and shall break many a barrier. The death of Jesus as is the root of my claim and this root is watered by God’s own Hand and the Prophet sa looks after it. God has tes- tified by His Word and His Messenger sa has testified by his action—i. e. through his own eyewitness ac- count—that Jesus as is dead and that on the Night of