Tadhkirah — Page 200
200 223 This is the substance of what my Lord has revealed to me. So I conveyed the messages of my Lord to them, but they felt no fear and did not affirm the truth. Instead, they increased in their rebellion and denial, and went on mocking like the enemies of the faith. Then my Lord addressed me and said: 224 223 [Arabic] I have observed their disobedience and their transgression, I shall soon afflict them with various types of misfortunes and shall wipe them out from under the heavens. You will soon see how I shall deal with them and I have power to do all that I might will. I shall make their women widows, and their children orphans, and their houses ruins, so that they might taste that which they have said and they have earned. But I shall not destroy them suddenly at one swoop, but stage by stage, so that they might have a chance of turning back and repenting. My curse will descend upon them and upon their homes and upon their little ones and their big ones and their women and their men and their guests who will enter their doors. All of them will be accursed except those who believe and act righteously and cut off their relations with them and keep off from their gatherings. Those will be the recipients of My mercy. [Publishers] 224 [Arabic] We shall show them Signs which will cause them to weep and shall send down upon them strange afflictions and