Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 689
THE AIDS VIRUS. AZRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD as also prophesied about another type of plague to appear later in some other parts of the world. In 1907, after the end of the plague in India, he received a revelation informing him of a type of plague to also appear in the future: یورپ اور دوسرے عیسائی ملکوں میں ایک قسم کی طاعون پھیلے گی جو بہت ہی سخت ہو گی۔ ‘A type of plague will spread in Europe and other. Christian countries, which will be very severe. '. What is meant by the term 'a type of plague' and why should it particularly strike Europe and other Christian countries? A clue to this is found in a hadith* of the Holy. Prophets of Islam in an observation he made almost thirteen hundred years before the time of the Promised. Messiah. According to this tradition reported by Ibn-eMajah's Kitāb-ul-Fitan, the Holy Prophets states: لَمْ تَظْهَرِ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي قَوْمٍ قَطُّ حَتَّى يُعْلِنُوا بِهَا إِلَّا فَشَا فِيهِمُ الطَّاعُونُ وَالْأَوْجَاعُ الَّتِي لَمْ تَكُنْ مَضَتْ فِي أَسْلَافِهِمُ مَضَوْا 2. It never happens that permissiveness (faḥshā) overwhelms a people to the extent that they display their acts of sex shamelessly and they are not uniquely punished by God. Among them, invariably, * The word of the Holy Prophetsa is termed hadith which is translated into English as tradition. But as the word tradition has many other connotations as well, the English reader may find it confusing at times. For this reason we shall refer to the Holy. Prophet's word as hadith which is the correct technical term. 647