Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 125
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 125 1. ِّبَر ُنْجِّسلا ُّبَحَا َّيَلِا اَّمِم ْۤيِنَنْوُعْدَي ِهْيَلِا This is by way of a prophecy about the future, so as to reveal the truth of my inner condition to the people. Although it goes against my habit and I am totally averse to displaying my inner purity before people, like Y u suf, I also say: 2 َو ۤاَم ُئِّرَبُا ْيِسْفَن١ۚ َّنِا َسْفَّنلا ٌۢةَراَّمَاَل ِءْٓوُّسلاِب اَّلِا اَم َمِحَر ْيِّبَر But how and why should I seek to conceal God’s beneficence and grace? His favours upon me are so numerous that I cannot even count them. How wonderfully gracious of God that in an age when thinking ill of others has become so widespread, He has shown awe-striking Signs for my sake. Take, for example, the terrible earthquake of which I was informed on 31st May 1904, which did away with thousands of human lives in an instant and turned mountains into virtual caves. Who knew of its coming beforehand? Which astrologer had made this prophecy before I did? Nay, it was God Himself who told me of it about one year earlier and the news was conveyed to hundreds of thousands of peo- ple through the newspapers. God said that He would bring about an earthquake as a Sign so that the eyes of the righteously-inclined people are opened. In my view, however, the prophecies contained in Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya which also include the news of this terrible earthquake are not any lesser than this. The prophecy in which I have been referred to as Y u suf is of a similar nature, for the most malicious attacks that we witness today were foretold in it twenty-five years ago. These unholy attacks are the last resort of my foolish opponents, and after this shall 1. ‘O my Lord, I would prefer prison to that to which they invite me’ ( S u rah Y u suf, 12:34). [Publisher] 2. ‘And I do not absolve myself of weakness; for, the soul is surely prone to enjoin evil, save that whereon my Lord has mercy’ ( S u rah Y u suf, 12:54). [Publisher]