Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 213
213 But for those who do not follow tkee -faithfully, be thou not grieved, for such is the decree of heaven. Again His word came to rue saying: Out of regard for thy residence therein, I shall save the residents of Qadian in general from destructive plague and protect it from such a severe outbreak of it as might cause a panic or depopulate the town. It is the ordinance of Heaven which renders inoculation needless for me and for all those who dwell within my house or follow rue. For Almighty God has said it that people of my sect, whatever their number, shall be comparatively safe from the attacks of the plague. Only such of them may be overtaken by it as are either not true to their pledge or about whom there is some other reason known to God only. But ultimately people will see with wonder and acknowledge that compared with my opponents, my followers have enjoyed with God's assistance a far greater security from the plague, and that a special provi- dence of God has watched over them, to which there has been be no parallel among any other people. At this some will laugh and call me mad, and others will be startled and surprised to hear that there is a God who can bring down His mercy upon His faithful servants without the intervention of physical causes. To set this scepticism at rest, I declare that without doubt their exists such an Almighty God. If God had n9t such power, His seekers would have had to quaff the bitter cup. Wonderful is the might of the Lord and wondrous are His ways. On the one hand, He turns the wicked ones against the righteous and sets them over His favorite ones like dogs, atid on the other, He gives His angels charge over them and makes them triumph over their enemies. In like manner, when His fierce wrath encompasses the world to consume the unrighteous and His anger is kindled against the workers of im'quily, His eye protects