Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 336
336 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA - PART FIVE زلزلہ کا دھگا Shock of earthquake. Then subsequent to it, this second revelation: عفت الديار محلها ومقامها [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out] describes the features of that very earthquake already mentioned in the same newspaper. This prophecy cannot apply to the plague in any way. Both of these revelations were published in the same newspa- per Al-Hakam just five months apart. Tell me, is it obduracy or not to declare such a grand prophecy-which foretells this great calamity twice in the same newspaper, specifying the term 'earthquake' and its attributes to be useless and absurd? If that is so, it is doubtful if you can remain faithful to Islam, for it is written, in authentic commentar- ies, that when the verse: سَيُهْزَمُ الْجَمْعُ وَيُولُونَ الدُّبُرَ . was revealed, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said that he did not know what event that prophecy referred to. Later, at the great victory in the Battle of Badr, he said that he had now realized that this was the victory the prophecy had foretold. On one occasion he said that [in a vision] he was given a bunch of grapes and was told that it was for Abū Jahl, but he was surprised that Abū Jahl was so thoroughly evil that he was not worthy to enter Paradise. And he [the Holy Prophetsas] did not comprehend its purport at 1. The hosts shall soon be routed and will turn their backs in flight (Sūrah al Qamar, 54:46). [Publisher]