Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 227
227 situated at not more than two miles from it. It also deserves to be mentioned that certain persons who were sick with plague were, brought. in here from infected villages and they all escaped death. What stronger proof than this could he demanded that what had been said four years since is being. fulfilled. to-day. Tne appearance of the plague in the Punjab had been foretold in the Barahin-i-Ahrnadiyya more than twenty-two years ago. To reveal such deep secrets of the future could not be within the power of a mortal. The Message which Almighty God has now. given to me as to the means which can cause the plague to disappear from the country, is that people should believe in me with a sincere heart as the Prom- ised Messiah. Had my assertion not been accompanied with adequate proof like the assertion of other religious leaders, I would have been an idle-talker like them. But I told you of what was to happen before there was any sign of the thing, and what I said ere now has been fulfilled to-day. Almighty God has again revealed to me His word, saying: P iEJ i yjifj ^ j ; $i I )) y * ? jj jSj ) ^ j i AJ ) ^ C^H j ^ **d *JJ ) ^ & u ^ jL, f J ; ^ J ^ (sy $ ^J i ^ j jl ) > ) o ^4^ jJ | l> ) fy * }} Ju } * r ^b ^. r y. ) 3 * r y. ) J r- ; J ' r ^ JJ J 3J ) c Lij ^w^&jj ) j G IxiJ ^ ) j* $ ] J l U ) ^ j i^/ _j ^J i J vlT) 3 ) & UA ) ) f^i. dJU I \\1 I** I** * * 1 l^^lj / * I ^ *^ *1 / 7 * v*^ ^ f^& u*^' ' * I 5 L >xa> C35^. 1*10 ^2a^ v. ^. Uir* ^. V i L __-&*M \*) / God is not going to punish them (i. e. , the people of Qadian) with severe tortures whilst thou art among them. Verily He shall protect this village from the virulence and destruction of the plague. Had it not been for the regard and esteem in