Some Prophecies of Hazrat Ahmad - A Critical Study — Page 7
i destined and desired by Him and not as understood and anticipated by man. . Furthermore, there is, in fact, positive evidence in the Holy Quran which indicates that Divine promises of glad tidings are also subject to change if people to whom these promises are made are found not to be befitting to receive the promised kindness. What, may one ask, happened to Hadhrat Mosesas and his people, the Israelites brought out of Pharaoh's captivity in Egypt?. Hadhrat Mosesas prophecied that God would destroy the enemies of the. House of Israel and make the children of Israel inherit the Promised. Land. 15 To realise these promises, God brought them to the very doorsteps of the Promised Land He had ordained for them. And yet, when the. Israelites proved unworthy to receive His promise, He decreed the fulfilment of His promise to be suspended for yet another forty years. 16. History indicates that this righteous apostle of God Almighty, Hadhrat. Mosesas, suffered alongside his transgressing nation and although entirely free from guilt, he died in the wilderness of Moab, without ever entering the Promised Land which had been promised to him and his people. . But since he was a faithful and trustful servant of God Almighty, he neither questioned nor doubted his Lord's word. Would the sponsors of the naive assertion that God's promises must be fulfilled without any reservation or change, irrespective of the execrable conduct of the people to whom these Divine promises are made, now dare question God. Almighty on behalf of Hadhrat Mosesas?. Hence, when we read that God's words 'never change,' it should only be understood as an established way of God and the known fulfilment of. His decrees in the past since the declaration that God's words do not change is based on such verses of the Holy Quran as state: 'Do they look for anything but [God's] way of [dealing with] the people of old? But thou wilt never find any change in the way of God: nor 15. Al Quran 7. 130 7 16. Al Quran 5. 22/27