Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 431
will be the destruction on the earth's surface as the world has not witnessed before. Many places shall be turned up side down and they would present such scenes of devastation that one would think, they had never been inhabited. Other calamities of a terrible nature from earth as well as heaven will come upon men so that the wise men will be convinced of their extraordinari- ness. Then will men m great bewilderness 'begin to ask what was going to happen. Many shall behaved and many shall be destroyed. ' The days are near, nay, they are at the doors when the world shall see an' unparalleled scene of devastation, Not only will great earthquakes come but other calamities from heaven and earth will also visit the -earth. . All this will be brought about because men have forsaken God and with all then 1 soul they are bent low upon the world. Had. I not come, these calamities would also have been put off for a while but with my appearance the secret designs of the wrath of God have been made manifest for He says that 'Punishment is not Sent upon a people until a Messenger is raised. 7 Those who show fear before the calamity comes'shall be shown mercy. "Do you think that you can be saved by your own plans ? That cannot be. Do not think that severe earthquakes have come in distant places in America, and your country is safe, for I see greater distress is in store for you. Thou: Europe! art not safe, nor Thou Asia ! And ye that dwell in islands, no selfmade Deity will assist you on that day. I see cities falling down, and I find inhabited places in ruin. The Omnipotent God has kept silence for a long time, while detestable deeds were done in His sight, but now He will show His face with great awe. Let him who has ears hear that time is not distant. I strove hard to gather men under the protection of God, but it is necessary that the writing of fate should be fulfilled. I say to you truly that