Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 349
However, having exhausted his sincere efforts to bring this section of his family back to the fold of Islam, he supplicated the Divine and in response to his prayers, God Almighty informed him: 'I have observed their misconduct and wickedness and I shall soon destroy them through different types of calamities and you will see how I deal with them. I shall make their women widows and their children orphans and shall ruin their homes so that they might be punished for their misdeeds. '*. It has however been a Divine practice that God Almighty does not* punish His creatures without first sending a warning to them³ so that they may repent and make amends or else have no complaints against. Him. ". The family of Muhammedi Begum was not an exception to this rule and hence God Almighty informed Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: 'I shall not destroy them at one stroke but gradually so that they might turn back and repent. My curse will descend upon the walls of their homes; on their elders and their young ones; on their men and their women and on their their guests. All of them will be accursed except those who believe and keep away from their company. They will be under divine mercy. "8. This revelation hence indicates that the misfortune which the. Almighty Lord had decreed against this family was entirely subject to the future attitude of the individuals within the family. They could, if they so chose, avert this misfortune, through repentence and by cutting themselves asunder and not keeping company with that element of the family against whose misconduct and wickedness this divine decree had been determined. . In another revelation, the Almighty Lord directed Hazrat Mirza 4. Ayenae Kamalat Islam: pg 569 i 6. Al Quran 5. 40 7. Al Quran 4. 166 5. Al Quran 6. 132 8. Ayenae Kamalat Islam: pg 569 350