Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 125
125 all Muslim dominions, including Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, and indeed in your own country of Afghanistan, the adulterer is no longer stoned to death, nor is the thief punished by the cut - ting of his hand. Some governments have been forbidden to give such punishments under certain agreements. No one could have imagined that a time would come when Muslim governments would ignore these laws and would not be able to put them into practice even if they wanted to. Aside from the sign of the time of the Promised Messiah as that pertain to religion, morality, intellect, physical characteris - tics, politics, culture, etc. , the Holy Prophet s as has also described certain terrestrial signs, some of which I will relate here. Terrestrial Signs The Holy Prophet s as said: When these signs have been fulfilled, you should be ready to face some afflictions, one of which would be the sinking of the earth. 65 Physicists know that sinking of the earth results from earthquakes therefore the Holy Prophet s as was foretelling the coming of earth - quakes. This sign, which relates to the inner state of the earth, has also come to pass and the world has witnessed more earthquakes in the last 20 years than in the whole 300 years before this. So many people have died of these earthquakes that there is no paral - lel of it in past centuries.