Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 109
109 Everyone is aware of the events of the people of Jonah where there was no condition and yet the punishment decreed for them was averted by repentance and asking of forgiveness. In the present case there was the clear admonition: ‘Repent, repent, for the ca lamity is on thy heels’; which meant that everything would be averted through repentance. They were put in fear and thus a part of the prophecy was averted. (Badar, 13 April 1908) The effect of the prophecy was that God Almighty delivered a large number of the members of that family and brought them into the Ahmadiyya Movement and made them devoted Muslims. Out of a long list of those members of this family who have joined the Movem ent, we call attention to a statement made in a letter by Mirza Ishaq Beg, son of Muhammadi Begum, who, by God’s grace, is a member of the Ahmadiyya Movement. He has said: In accordance with this prophecy, my maternal grandfather, Mirza Ahmad Beg, died and the rest of the family was put in fear and became inclined towards reform, the irrefutable proof of which is that most of them joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in consequence of which God Almighty, being Forgiving and Merciful, changed His wrath into mercy. (Al - Fazal, 26 February 1923) One objection that is raised in connection with this prophecy is that the Promised Messiah stated in Izalah Auham in 1891: