The Quetta Earthquake - A Mighty Divine Sign — Page 9
9 tude of the ~rthquake? And how is it that these Ulema who profess to sit in the seat of the Holy Prophet (on whom be peace), remained entirely ignorant of its contents, and were able to derive nothing at all from it? The Promised Messiah claimed to have derived everything from the Holy Quran. If prophecies about earthquakes are to be found in the Holy Quran, how does this fact, at all, prejudice the Promised Messiah's own prophecies? Was not his claim only this, that through a fresh revelation, God had vouch- safed to him, the details hidden in the prophecies of the Holy Quran? And if this claim be false, would the' heirs' of the Prophet say, who, if any, from among them, was able, even out of the Holy Quran, to prophesy, for example, about the Kangra earthquake, as early as, or even;later than the Promised l\1essiah was able to do ? Or, who, from among theIn, was able to prophesy, regarding the Bihar earthquake, and foretell its time, and the direction of its reverbera- tions? Or, who, from among them, was able to prophesy, regarding the time, the place, and the character of the Quetta earthquake? If nobody but the Proruised Me3siah W:1S able to do so, is it very honest, to make such lame excuse:;, after the prophecy has been fulfilled? Is it not rather a lnean effort to keep men away fronl the truth? And, further, do they not see that in the Holy Quran, the prophecy about earthquakes (99 :1-5)1 is follo\ved by the pro- phecy that when the time of the earthquakes comes, God will warn the world afresh through a new revelation. Thus: tfJ ~-,'~) ~ In other words: 'Earthquakes \vill come because God will then have sent a nAW revelation about the earth. ' (99: 6. ) We also read in the Holy Quran llr)~;' u h ~~ wl~) i. e. , 'We never send visitations on earth, until ,ve have first raised a !v[ essenger. ' (16: 17).