The Quetta Earthquake - A Mighty Divine Sign — Page 11
11 ~. >. . :0. J. :!>,-. J } » '-:-') • u W J &J r j \. ) ; y '-:-' ) J. e. , • Show me not, 0 God, that terrible earthql,ake. Show me not 0 God! the death of any of my men. ' (March 9, 1906, 'Vide Badr, Vol. 2, No. 11). These further revelations show clearly, that earthquakes which were destined to bring some little hss to Ahmadis, had been put off by God, and they were now to occur, some time after the death of the Promised Messiah. In view of these revelations, therefore, the objection that the Quetta earthquake occurred after the death of the Founder, is of no avail at all. VII Some, ugain, say that as earthquakes are a common phenomenon, how could anyone of them really serve as a sign of anybody's truth? But, I ask, if earthquakes are a common phenomenon. and if a prophecy about them is no prophecy at all, then why did God reveal, in the. Holy Quran, a whole chapter-the Chapter of the Earthquake-as a warning about earthquakes? If you say, that the warning contained in that chapter, is a warning about the Day of Doom, then what about the assertion you made, that the' present earthquakes have already been foretold by the Holy Quran? If the pre$ent earthquakes have been foretold by the Holy Quran, they mU$t be a significant phenomenon and a prophecy which foretells about them, must be a genuine prophecy. If, on the otber band, the Holy Quran contains no sllch prophecy, then at least the assertion by the Ukma that our Founder only took the prophecy out of the Holy Quran, and himself had no revelation about it, must be set down as utterly false. Now ye who love the tntth! All of you must have realised that the Uiet"" of your time, do not desire the spread of truth at all. They desire' rather its suppression. God has sent