The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 95
The Plague 95 despite the fact that it is wreaking havoc all around it outside a two-kilometre radius. Moreover, anyone who has come to Qadian, after being afflicted by the plague, has been cured. Could there be greater proof than the fact that everything that had been foretold four years ago has come to pass? In fact the plague had been foretold twenty-two years ago in Brāhīn-e- Ahmadiyya, and no one possesses such foreknowl- edge, except God. The message that God revealed to me for removing this disease is that people should wholeheartedly accept me as the Promised Messiah. Had I made a mere claim without an argument, as Miān Shams-ud-Din, Secretary, Himāyat-e-Islam La- hore, or Padre White Brecht have done in their announcements, I too could be accused of talking irra- tionally, whereas the fact is that whatever I had foretold has come to pass. And only recently God has revealed to me: مَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَأَنْتَ فِيهِمْ إِنَّةَ أَوَى الْقَرْيَةَ لَوْلَا الْإِكْرَامُ لَهَلَكَ الْمُقَامُ إِنِّي أَنَا الرَّحْمَنُ دَافِعُ الْأَذَى إِنِّي لَا يَخَافُ لَدَيَّ الْمُرْسَلُونَ إِنِّي حَفِيظٌ إِنِّي مَعَ الرَّسُولِ أَقُومُ وَ الْوُمُ مَنْ يَلُومُ - أَفْطِرُ وَأَصُومُ - غَضِبْتُ غَضَبًا شَدِيدًا - الْأَمْرَاضُ تُشَاعُ وَالنُّفُوسُ تُضَاعُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيْمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولَئِكَ لَهُمُ الْأَمْنُ وَهُمْ مُّهْتَدُونَ إِنَّا نَاتِي الْأَرْضَ نَنْقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا - إِنِّي أُجَهْزُ الْحَيْشَ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ نَصُرٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَفَتْحٌ مُّبِينٌ إِنِّي بَايَعُتُكَ يَا يَعَنِي رَبِّي أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ أَوْلَادِى أَنْتَ مِنِّي وَأَنَا مِنْكَ - عَسَى أَنْ يَبْعَثَكَ رَبُّكَ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا الْفَوْقُ مَعَكَ وَالتَّحْتُ مَعَ أَعْدَائِكَ فَاصْبِرُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ يَأْتِي عَلَى جَهَنَّمَ زَمَانٌ لَّيْسَ فِيهَا أَحَدٌ