Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 150
150 those who sincerely followed him and set a high exam- ple of obedience to him in every respect, and that it would not harm them. Another revelation which he received in this con- nection was: Inn i u ha fi z u kulla man fidd a r , i. e. , 'I shall protect all those that dwell in this house,' i. e. , from plague. These revelations were immediately published in books and newspapers, and the Promised Messiah as challenged his opponents to publish similar assurances of security from plague concerning their own selves and their houses, if they imagined that the Promised Messiah as was a mere impostor; but none dared do so. The plague has been ravaging India for the last twenty-eight years, and that it was at its height in 1901, when these revelations were published by the Promised Messiah as. The total number of deaths by plague so far exceeds seven or eight million, and in some years the mortality through plague was as high as three hundred thousand. The Punjab has been the worst sufferer from it, being responsible for more than three quarters of the total deaths from plague in India. In such a province and under such conditions it is impossible for a man to assert that he and those who dwell in his house would be saved from plague, especially when the security relates to nearly three or four score of people (for such was the number of inmates of his house) and is not confined to a limited period of time but extends over a period of several years. Can a man dare make such an assertion of his own knowledge and, relying on his own