Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 692
THE AIDS VIRUS behaviour at the national level is not witnessed elsewhere in the world. One will not hear of homosexuality being legalized except in Western countries. You will not hear of homosexuality in any religious institutions except in. Christianity. . But it should be remembered however, that these countries though Christian in name, are farthest from. Christian values. Nor can the Muslim countries, for that matter, be rightly described as custodians of Islam. . Hence, if permissiveness and the unrestrained display of shameless conduct are found among Hindu or Muslim countries there is no reason why the same consequent disaster should not befall them. . T. HE AIDS EPIDEMIC has already reached all the continents of the world and there will be hardly anyone not familiar with the horrors of this disease. However, it would be naive to assume that the full dimensions of the horror have been properly realized. Nor is it right to assume that AIDS has already played its role and will soon be on its way out. Ill-advised indeed are those who entertain the hope that soon scientific research will find an effective antidote or prophylactic against the AIDS virus. We entertain no such optimism. On the contrary, we are afraid that the main thrust of the disease is yet to come. The observation that lends support to this view relates to a general similarity between the first advent of the Messiah in the form of Jesusas and his second advent in the person of. Ahmad of Qadian. as. This is not the proper place to enter into an in-depth study of similitude between the old and the new Christ. . However, as far as the sign of the plague is concerned, we must point out that the plague also appeared as a sign to punish the antagonists of Jesus Christas. At the rejection of. Jesusas, the first epidemic of plague was recorded in ad 65. 650