The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 338
Sixteemh Friday Sennon Mar 08, 1991 Then in another Hadith, His Holiness, Hazrat Muhammad' u says: (Sanan lbne Maaja, Kitabul Fitan, Chapter Al Aqubat) "if a nation becomes afflicted with sexual shamelessness and makes open display of it, then a kind of plague-like affliction spreads amongst it which has never spread in any earlier generations. " (Sunan Ibn Maaja Kitaab al fatan Chapter al aqobaat) This is that saying of the Holy Prophet (Hadith) which specifically points to the Aids disease in very clear terms. And this Aids is what has been referred to as a plague-like disease and about which it has been said that it has never spread in the world before. It is interesting to note that the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, too was given the news of the spreading of a new kind of plague. This is a revelation of March 13, 1907. He says: "A type of plague will spread in Europe and other Christian countries which would be very severe" (Tazkirah p. 705). Thus this is a catastrophe which is destined for them either today or in the future. If these nations do not reform themselves then the most dreadful calamities shall befall them as a consequence of their misdeeds. It is important at this point to clarify that all ominous prophecies, i. e. prophecies predicting evil consequences are always conditional even if the conditions are not spelled out in clear words. A clear example of this is found in the incident of the Prophet Hazrat Jonah u - that a categorical prophecy was averted through the repentance of his nation. COMPASSION FOR THE JEWS, IF THEY CHANGE THEIR WAYS Thus, although the issue of Israel's destruction or continued ex. istence shall be decided in the heavens, yet if the moderate and 338