Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 360
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 360 My Answer— Distrust is something that has no cure. Otherwise, it is obvious that if a person is given the knowledge that a certain calamity is going to befall a certain people, and he fails to duly warn them of the destruction about to befall them—at the same time he also believes that his warning them or not will be equal to them—still his heart will be saddened after that calamity that only if they had listened to him they would have been saved. I think every heart has this quality in it, but it may be that the hearts of some of the maulaw i s of this age are such that God has taken away this quality from them. And if it is wondered as to why they should believe that the recipi- ent of the revelation had become convinced that the revelation: عفت الدیار محلّھا ومقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out] referred to an earthquake, I have already written in answer to this that it is such a clear revelation that even a child, on being informed of its meaning, would be convinced that this is the prophecy about a severe calamity that will impact buildings. Moreover, the prophecy about an earthquake is present in clear words in the newspaper Al- H akam a year and five months prior to it; that is, in its issue towards the end of December 1903. And then the same prophecy about the earthquake is present in Maw a hib-ur-Ra h m a n, published in 1902. Again, the very same proph- ecy about the earthquake is present in Ris a lah A m i n, published in 1901. Therefore, despite such repetition, how can any intelligent person think that I was totally unaware of this prophecy? Of course, I have also reiterated again and again, as is my belief, that it cannot be categor- ically claimed with regard to the prophecies that they will necessarily be fulfilled in a certain way. It is possible that God—the All-Knowing, the All-Wise—may choose some other manner for its manifestation