Lecture Sialkot — Page 56
56 L ECTURE S IALKOT rive any benefit from this sign and their hearts did not show any inclination towards me, as if it was no sign at all but only a worthless prophecy. Thereafter, when the mischief of the disbelievers ex- ceeded all limits, God manifested a sign of chastise- ment, just as it had been recorded in the Books of Prophets as. This sign of Divine chastisement is the Plague which has been eating away this country for some years and against which no human strategy has been of any avail. The tiding of this Plague is present in the Holy Quran in clear terms. Allah says: 34 This means that, sometime before Doomsday, a se- vere pestilence shall strike and some villages shall totally wiped out while other shall revive after suffer- ing to an extent. Similarly, God Almighty says in another verse which is translated as follows: 'When the sentence is passed against them, We shall bring forth for them an worm out of the earth which shall injure them because people did not accept Our signs. 35 Both these verses are present in the Holy Quran and contain a clear prophecy about the Plague, 34 There is not a township but We shall destroy it before the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with a severe punishment. —Ban i Isr a ’ i l, 17:59 [Publishers] 35 Al-Naml, 27:83 [Publishers]