Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 796
796 AL-ISTIFTA'―SUPPLEMENT TO HAQIQATUL-WAHI الْأَمْرَاضُ تُشَاعُ وَالنُّفُوْسُ تُضَاعُ Diseases will be spread and lives will be lost. So you have seen that, quite like voracious animals, the plague has played havoc with people's lives. You witnessed how the plague ran rampant in this country and quite a large number of people were killed. It still attacks like wild beasts and keeps roaming and seizing people every day. With each passing year it becomes more dreadful than the previous year. Moreover, it has been followed by terrible earthquakes. All these prophecies were widely published even in distant lands before their fulfilment. In this, certainly, there is a great Sign for those who can see. Allah has also informed him of another earthquake which will be like doomsday; we do not know what Allah will reveal thereafter. Surely, for those who are endowed with reason, there is a reason to fear. So explain and be rewarded-O brave young people!—is this the work of Allah or the fabrication of a human being? Verily, Allah has ordained deaths as well as gifts for this age. Those who believe and do not taint their faith with injustice, will be granted gifts by the Gracious God; however, those who do not repent nor seek forgiveness, nor does the piety of heart or the fear of that which has befallen the towns bring them to this servant of God, and who are guilty of a great rebellion against God, and—like the intoxicated—are bent on pursuing their worldly pursuits, they will be given a taste of death on a massive scale because they had crossed all limits in disobedience. The heavens shall crash down upon their heads and the earth shall split beneath their feet. Everyone shall encounter their [due] reward. The promise of God the Requiter shall be fulfilled on that day. Another Sign for him is that God gave him the glad tiding that the plague would not enter his house and the earthquakes would not destroy him or his helpers, and that God would keep the evil of both [these calamities] away from his house. The arrows of both of them will not be brought out of the quiver, nor will they be shot, feathered, or sharpened. And so has it happened by the grace of Allah, the Lord of all