Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 239
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 239 them? Have I lied or are you lying? َ ْن ی ِ لَعْنَة ُ الل ِّٰ عَلَی الْكٰذِب [The curse of Allah be upon the liars]. The newspaper Al- H akam is there; check both its issues. This newspaper was published in the country a year before the promised earthquake. It has even reached the Government. Now, tell me what prejudice persuaded you to utter such falsehood as to claim that there is no mention of ‘earthquake’ in the prophecy? His Statement— This revelation is found on the page, column 4, of the 31 May 19021 issue of Al- H akam, and it is clearly written in bold letters alongside it: ‘Related to the plague. ’ My Answer— Can there be any doubt that this earthquake is a sup- plement to the plague and is related to it, for God has told me again and again that both the earthquake and the plague are in support of my claim? Thus, the earthquake, indeed, has a connection with the plague; for, the plague is a Sign from God Almighty for me and so is the earth- quake. That is the reason that both have a mutual connection and both are in support of the same issue. And if some doubt arises in the mind that this sentence does, in fact, refer to the plague, then such doubt is indeed spurious, because something that has a connection with another cannot possibly be iden- tical to it. Moreover, there is a strong indication here that this sentence does not really refer to the plague, because there already is present the reve- lation, ‘The jolt of the earthquake. ’ One should then ponder, invoking a little fairness and sound reason, whether falling of buildings and elim- ination of habitations can be features of a plague. Rather, these pertain to features of an earthquake. A fair person can never be so audacious as 1. There seems to be a scribal error. It should have been written as Al- H akam , 31st May 1904, page 9, column 4. [Publisher]