The Quetta Earthquake - A Mighty Divine Sign — Page 6
6 Now, ye who have in their hearts the fear of God! and ye who have not entirely forgotten your approaching end! Ponder over these words, ard behold how clearly the earthquakes that have come in Japan, in Bihar, and in Quetta, were prophesied in these words, and how, besides these earthquakes, many other earthquakes have also been prophesied? Earthquakes which will \;york havoc in the ¥lorld,. . . . . . which "viII destroy the peace of human beings, and the tranquility of their hearts? r d this, because the people have not heeded the call of their Creator, and have in- stead, accepted the lead of the Devil; because they have expelled the love of God from their hearts, and have n1ade room in it for the love of the world; because they abused one who strove for their own good; and, because they made their enemies their leaders. Would that they opened their eyes, and saw where their Ule1na "vere leading them; whether they were leading them to truth or to falsehood; and whether they taught them good tTIorals or bad ones! Would that they repented, and accepted the messenger of God, purified their hearts, and practised virtue! Would, that they realised, that nearness to God \\7as not attained by abuse and vain talk, but only through hunlility and self-abasen1ent 1 If they had but done so, they vvould have found the gates of the I{ingdonl of I-Ieaven opening for then1, and God Hinlself descending to their aid. IV Friends! One of the prophecies which the Promised Messiah pu blished regarding earthquakes, declares r. ->J~) 4. ~} ~su: (Sept. 13, 1905, vide Badr, Vol. 1, No. 24, p. 2) i. e. , a whole area, consisting of to,,705 and cities, will be blotted out from the surface of the earth, just as men have blotted out God from their thoughts, having forsaken His Worship and His Book, the Holy Quran. This prophecy implies, that of the coming earthquakes, at least one would visit a Muslim area and would blot out its population, just