The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 95
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI be immune to these calamities? Or can you save yourselves through artifice or design? Indeed not. That day all human schemes shall fail. . Think not that earthquakes visited America and other continents but that your own country shall remain secure. Indeed, you may experience a greater hardship. O Europe, you are not safe and O Asia. you too, are not immune. I see cities fall and settlements laid waste. . The One and the Only God kept silent for long. Heinous deeds were done before His eyes and He said nothing. But now He shall reveal. His face in Majesty and Awe. Let him who has ears hear that the time is not far. I have done my best to bring all under the protection of. God, but it was destined that what was written should come to pass. . Truly do I say that the turn of this land, too, is approaching fast. The time of Noah shall reappear before your eyes, and your own eyes will be witnesses to the calamity that overtook the cities of Lot. But God. is slow in His Wrath. Repent that you may be shown mercy! He who does not fear Him is dead, not alive". (Haqiqatul Wahi: pp. 256-57). The prophecy and warning is very clear. He has explained in his other writings that by warning of 'earthquakes' in his revelation may be meant some other type of catastrophe which resembles earthquakes in suddenness and destruction. A reflection over his words makes it clear that worldwide catastrophic events which are world wars have been prophesied. Additional tribulations may also be meant. We think that two World Wars which the 20th century has experienced were foretold in this prophecy. His words also warn that a Third World War which will be a nuclear war, will also occur. His words, 'Day of Doom' and 'A havoc shall sweep the surface of the earth which shall be the greatest since the birth of man. Habitations shall be demolished as if no one had ever lived in them' and looking at the prophecy as a whole makes it clear that a world catastrophe of the nature of a nuclear war is also prophecied and man is warned against it. The author has made it clear in his writing that all prophecies of punishment are conditional and can be averted if people repent, turn to God, perform righteous actions, giving up transgression and evil ways. The spiritual reason for world wide catastrophes is the turning away from God, materialism and evil 95