Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 149
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 149 within forty days; whereas, prior to this age, one could not achieve this even in a hundred years if granted a long life! Then Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Quran: ِنْيَنْرَقْلا ۤاَّمِا ْنَا َبِّذَعُت َو ۤاَّمِا ْنَا َذِخَّتَت ْمِهْيِف اًنْسُح َلاَق اَّمَا ْنَم َمَلَظ َفْوَسَف ٗهُبِّذَعُن َّمُث ُّدَرُي ىٰلِا ٖهِّبَر َعَبْتَاَف اًبَبَس ىّٰۤتَح اَذِا َغَلَب َبِرْغَم ِسْمَّشلا اَهَدَجَو ُبُرْغَت ْيِف ٍنْيَع ٍةَئِمَح َّو َدَجَو اَهَدْنِع اًمْوَق اَنْلُق اَذٰي 1. ٗهُبِّذَعُيَف اًباَذَع اًرْكُّن َو اَّمَا ْنَم َنَمٰا َو َلِمَع اًحِلاَص ٗهَلَف َءٓاَزَج ىٰنْسُحْل۟ا١ۚ َو ُلْوُقَنَس ٗهَل ْنِم اَنِرْمَا اًرْسُي Meaning that, when Dhul-Qarnain, who is the Promised Messiah, is furnished with all the means, he will follow a certain path. In other words, he will resolve to reform the people of the West. He will find that the Sun of Truth and righteousness has set in a muddy pool, and near this filthy spring and darkness he will find a nation who will be referred to as the people 0f the West. These are the Christians of the West who will be steeped in darkness; they will have no sun to get light from, nor will they have clean water to drink. That is, both in prac- tice and doctrine they will be in a terrible state; they will be bereft of spiritual light and spiritual water. Then We shall say to Dhul-Qarnain, i. e. the Promised Messiah: ‘It is up to you either to punish them’—that is, pray for punishment to descend upon them (as is found narrated in the authentic a ha d i th )—‘or to treat them with kindness. ’ Dhul- Qarnain —meaning the Promised Messiah—will then answer: ‘We desire punishment only for the one who transgresses. They will be pun- ished in this life also through our supplications and then suffer severe torment in the Hereafter. But he who does not deny the truth and does good deeds will have his reward. He will be required only to do what can be done with facility and ease. ’ In short, these verses contain a prophecy that the Promised Messiah will appear at a time when the people of the West will be steeped in darkness. The Sun of Truth will completely disappear from their view—going down into a dirty, stinking pool; in other words, 1. S u rah al-Kahf, 18:86–89 [Publisher]