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An Important Announcement Pertaining to the Prophecy About the Earthquake

Rouse yourselves friends
For another earthquake is in sight;
God is again going to manifest
His power and His might.

Be sure that the earthquake
You witnessed in February
Was a mere jolt
To warn and to make you wary.

O unheeding people!
With the water of your eyes
Try to quench the fire
That is about to rain from the skies.

Why should earthquakes not come
When goodness and piety wane;
Even a Muslim today
Is only a Muslim in name.

Did they accept me for fear of Him?
Did they give up their malevolence?
Nay, to hear their vilification
Seems to be the purpose of my existence.

They call me an infidel,
An antichrist, and a man of sin;
The chance of their accepting me
Truly and sincerely, is slim.

Wherever you may look
People are steeped in prejudice and ill will;
One only has to ask,
They will ascribe [to me] every fault and every ill.

Having abandoned the Faith2
They have fallen for the world;
No matter how I admonish
They will not heed my word.

My heart nearly stops
When I see the Faith3 in adversity;
But the Hand of God
Is about to restore its4 tranquillity.

Now will you have
A taste of His ire;
This calamity shall spread
Far and wide its empire.

The Faith5 will now be helped
By the hand of death;
Or one of these days, O friends,
It would draw its last breath.

The Faith,6 for which a whole world
Was once ready to die,
Today the wretchedest man
Is ready to vilify.

Announcement by:
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
The Promised Messiah
March 9th, 1906