An Admonitory Sign — Page 9
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 9 ] Due to this thought, I had already alerted the Private Secre- tary that he should be on the look out for any unusual event that would occur on the 10 th of Rama da n. Our dear Saif i 3 stayed up all night and kept the radio on for the news. But a strange thing happened and the phone call that was meant to be for him, came to me by mistake and this news reached me first instead of him. Hidden Lessons in the Unexpected Storm In this event there are many hidden lessons. One lesson is for certain that the hurricane was such an unusual event. The likes of it has not happened in this area in decades. In addition, this event has occurred on a Friday and the 10 th of the Holy Rama da n. These facts cannot be obliterated by the world. No one can negate them. Moreover, the threat appeared and then subsided. Regardless of how grave the threat was, it passed anyway. What does it signify or what inference should we derive from it? This is the thing that needs to be considered. I can think of many inferences from it about which I wish to inform the members of the Community. Firstly, though this vision appears to apply to this par- ticular incident and it is an unusual thing, it is not neces- sary that something should come to pass only once. From 3. Mirza Saf i r Ahmad, son-in-law of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV rta.