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27 December 1907 83 kind of amusement. 1 And the real reason for it was that those wretched people did not know that a specific miracle would appear that would force [Pharaoh] to cry out: 2 ُتْنَمٰا ٗهَّنَا ۤاَل َهٰلِا اَّلِا ْۤيِذَّلا ْتَنَمٰا ٖهِب اْۤوُنَب َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا ُتْنَمٰا ٗهَّنَا ۤاَل َهٰلِا اَّلِا ْۤيِذَّلا ْتَنَمٰا ٖهِب اْۤوُنَب َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا Heed the Early Warnings Therefore, remember it well that if you heed the early warn- ings and, fearing God Almighty, occupy yourself in Istighfar [seeking forgiveness] and لَحَوْل [ La haul…— ‘There is no power nor strength except from Allah the High’] and other virtuous deeds; it would bode well for you. But when that time finally comes, one who is heedless will have to face destruction in ter- rible humility and desperation, and weeping and wailing at that time would be of no avail, and then he would be forced to aban- don the very world for which he had turned away from religion, in great despondency. Beware, the plague is about to come too. The world says that it is now over and its reign has ended, but God says that soon a plague is going to spread that will be much more severe than the earlier one. He has also said that a severe epidemic will spread which cannot even be named. 1. From Badr: Initially there were mild chastisements—insects appeared, there was blood, there was famine. Pharaoh did not think much of famine. He might have found it amusing as the famine affects the poor. Little did he know that the day of severe seizing was to come when he would uncontrolla- bly cry out: ُتْنَمٰا ٗهَّنَا ۤاَل َهٰلِا اَّلِا ْۤيِذَّلا ْتَنَمٰا ٖهِب اْۤوُنَب َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا ُتْنَمٰا ٗهَّنَا ۤاَل َهٰلِا اَّلِا ْۤيِذَّلا ْتَنَمٰا ٖهِب اْۤوُنَب َلْيِءٓاَرْسِا [‘I believe that there is no God but He in Whom the children of Israel believe’, S u rah Y u nus, 10:91] ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 11, dated 9 January 1908). 2. I believe that there is no God but He in Whom the children of Israel believe ( S u rah Y u nus, 10:91). [Publisher]