Kabul Witnesses a Sign — Page 18
18 that he -Shall rise to it ori the ruin of the old royal. family and shall rule effectively the country whos people are quite un- used to teforrrt, and by the good arid solid work he shall do for the peace, progress and prosperity of his country he shall continue to rise in the esteem and aff ectiou of his people and when he shall die, his death shall be received with feelings of deep and intense grief, is a sign whose grandeur and majesty it is impossible to deny. It should be remembeted that this part of the revelation has been. fulfilled twice: First when in the time of the ex-King Amanullah Khan, Bachcha-i-Saqqa raised the standard of revolt and the King, his Ministers and the public at large cried, as if were, 'would that Nadir Khan had ·been in Kabul, he would have kept the peace of the country intact. ' Though Nadir Khan was not then Nadir Shah (as he is called in the prophecy) but sometimes a title or epithet is used about a person who is to acquire it later on. In the Quran we find instances of this kind of use of words. The Quran says : " It is also a sign to them that we bear their posterity in the full-laden ark. " Now it is apparently im·. possible to bear people in an ark which is already full-laden. When interpreting and explaining this verse the exegetists and translators of the Quran agree that the word ~_,~s. . . (full-laden) used in the verse means ' that which was to have become full-laden by the people who were to ride on it. ' As it was intended to show that the ark on account of the large number of persons who were to be borne on it or on account of the smalln. ess of its size was to become full, instead of expressing this sense in a separate sentence, the sentence " we bear them in the full-laden ark" is considered sufficient to convey adequately the intended sense 1 although it is quite evident that the ark could n?t become full before anybody went into it. . Jn the same way for Nadir Khan the appellation Nadir Shah has been used in the revelation. It is true that Nadir Khan was not Nadir Shah when Bachcha-i-Saqqa began to disturb the peace. of Afghanistan and attacked Kabql, but as God intended to show that by granting hirri success agai~st B1chcha-i-Saqqa, He would raise him to the throne of Afghanistan, Nadir Khan was called Nadir Shah ia the Promised Messiah's revelation and in this way a vast subject was explained in a brief and pithy sentence. But the see<. ,nd ·interpretation of the revelation has seen i-f~--. _fμ-~ft. ~e~;-11~~,~pti". 1'tf!~Ut. ift'n. : ~~a b9co,m~ ~0iiv~rsal~,y