The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 38
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 38 the horror of the Day of Judgment as you will be afflicted with a similar calamity, i. e. : 1 اًلَثَم ْۤيِنَبِّل َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا which means that an affliction akin to the Day of Judgment will befall you; hence, you must not have any doubt about it. ’ It would clearly have been out of place for God to have urged the Jews not to doubt the occurrence of the actual Last Day, say - ing they would surely witness it. The Jews of that time all passed away and they never witnessed the Last Day, which is actually yet to come. So, did God tell a lie?! What they did witness, however, was the destruction brought about by Titus, the Roman general. Therefore, the term قِیَامَة [ Qiy a mah ] here refers to the calam - ity the Jews suffered at the hands of Titus, the Roman emperor, in Jesus’ time and which they then witnessed again as a result of the plague. Since the ancient times, divine Scriptures contained the promise of the punishment that finds mention in the Bible on a number of occasions. In the Holy Quran, a verse was revealed specifically in this context. Hence, the same promise is recorded in the Holy Quran as was recorded in the previous scriptures with a view to warn the Jews. Otherwise, who would have cared for the distant Doomsday?! Do the present-day maulaw i s fear the Day of Judgment? Surely, they do not! As I have just explained, the term سَاعَۃ [ s a ‘ah ] is not peculiar to the Day of Judgment, nor has the Holy Quran used it specifically in relation to the Day of Judgment. It is appalling that men of imperfect knowledge, who are destined to be 1. S u rah az-Zukhruf, 43:60. [Publisher]