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and 'sacrifice can revoke a punishment decreed from Heaven. '10. Hence, irrespective of what the author of Two in One states in relation to Hadhrat Ahmad's as prophecies, the fact remains that fulfilment of prophecies, more particularly those which augur chastisement, are entirely conditional upon the behaviour of those against whom these decrees have been issued and also. God Almighty's ultimate will, a fact admitted by Muslim scholars of much greater religious understanding than this ignorant pir of Gujjo. " These men of understanding have also stated that 'if He, in His wisdom, resolves not to forgive, then every word of the prophecy is fulfilled. '12 But, as stated by them, if on account of the subsequent conduct of mankind, He decides to forgive and 'a prophecy which warns of punishment is not fulfilled, then its apparent non fulfilment cannot be construed an evidence of the falsification of God's word 13 since He embraces all Knowledge and He alone understands, not only the condition of a person's heart, but also, the ultimate purport of. His divine word. Hence, He fulfils His word as destined and desired by Him and not as anticipated by man and when we read that God's words 'never change,' it should 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 wilt thou find any alteration in the way of God. '14. However, if God Almighty, in accordance with His own established practice, suspends or cancels His decree of punishment of a people because of certain factors which claim. His mercy, as happened in the case of the people of Nineveh 15, then this apparent 'change' cannot be taken to mean a change in 10. Muttaqui, [Hadhrat] Sheikh 'Ala al Din 'Ali: Kanz al 'Ummal: al Jami al Sagheer: Vol 1 12. 11. Baidawi, [Hadhrat] Imam Qadi Nasir al Din Abu Sa'id 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar al: Anwar al. Tanzil wa Asrar al Ta'wil 12. Razi, [Hadhrat] Imam Fakhr al Din: Al Tafsir al Kabir 14. Al Quran 35. 44 15. Ibid. , 10. 99 13. Ibid. 279