Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 366
366 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA - PART FIVE His own handwritten note is recorded in the footnote. 1* Now, just open your eyes, and first read the note of Maulawi [Muhammad 'Alī], and then drown in shame. There is no need to say anything more. O mere mortal! Such slyness could not have been prac- ticed even by the Jews regarding whom Allah says: يُحَرِّفُونَ الْكَلِمَ عَنْ مَوَاضِعه 272 Part 6, Ruku What kind of specimen of your scholarship did you show? I cannot imagine that you were so naïve that you erred, in your simplicity, in understanding the text. You had written a review on Barahin-e- Ahmadiyya, and you knew well that the Arabic revelations which I have mentioned in the Ishtihār [Announcement] were not set out without translation. And you knew well that these Arabic revelations of Barahin- e-Ahmadiyya have neither been mentioned in our two newspapers Al-Hakam and Al-Badr, nor has anyone from my Community com- posed two such magazines in which there is any mention of these reve- lations of Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya. Hence, when these Arabic revelations of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya have their translation recorded in Barāhīn-e- Ahmadiyya, and when they are neither mentioned in any newspaper nor magazine, nor do they constitute one prophecy so that this text of the announcement of 11 May 1905, 'The Arabic prophecy was not even 1. My master, peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you! This revelation: عفت الديار محلها ومقامها [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out. ] had been published in both magazines in March, and is to be found on page 126 of the magazine. It was after reading this revelation and then reading the news of the earthquake in newspapers that Charles S. Wright Abdul Haq, who was then in New Zealand, wrote a letter expressing his great joy at the fulfilment of this prophecy by way of an earthquake. (Muhammad 'Alī) 2. They pervert the words from their proper places (Sūrah al-Ma'idah, 5:14). [Publisher]