Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 273
273 deserving the death penalty—would be put to death and that this would be followed by death and destruction in the land. Even though the revelation does not mention the country in which this will take place, the words clearly make the following points: 1. It will not take place under the dominion of the British but rather in a country where even law-abiding citizens are liable to be killed if they incur people’s wrath. 2. The men who would be thus killed would be from among the followers of the one making the prophecy; otherwise, there would be no point in specifying two victims. 3. The killing would be unjustified and not a penalty for any political crime. 4. As a result of this unjust killing, a general calamity would visit the land. These four points make the prophecy very different from ordinary prophecies. No one can say that the prophecy is vague as it does not specify the name of the country. The four points which the prophecy entails prove its authenticity because they cannot all come about just by coincidence. For about twenty years after this prophecy was published, there were no signs of it coming true, but soon events started to unfold that brought about its fulfilment in a phenomenal way. It so happened that someone took some books of the Promised Messiah as to Afghanistan and gave them to a renowned religious scholar, Sahibzadah Syed Abdul Latif of Khost, who was held in his esteem by all classes in Afghanistan, and was revered for his piety and purity by devoted friends and followers, among