Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 29
Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God 29 or having received a revelation or seen a dream, publish the announcement that Amroha will most certainly be saved from the ravages of the plague. However, calamity shall befall Qadian for it shelters a liar. ’ If such an announcement is forthcoming, the outcome will likely be determined by the winter that follows, or at the most, by the second or third winter. In accordance with the practice of God, the plague will begin to subside in the month of May throughout the country, and the days of God’s ‘fast’, as it were, shall come. However, it can be reckoned that in the beginning of November 1902 God shall break His fast. Then will it be known at the time of this if ta r [breaking of the fast] who from among the people falls into the grip of the Angel of Death. Since the Promised Messiah resides in the immediate vicin - ity of the Punjab and his first addressees are also the people of this province, the Punjab was struck first [by this epidemic]. Amroha too, however, is not beyond the encompassing strength of the Promised Messiah. Thus, the breath of this Messiah, which destroys the disbelievers, shall most certainly extend to Amroha as well. This is my claim: if Maulav i Ahmad Hasan should publish an announcement in which he swears on oath [that he is truthful], and as a result Amroha is saved from the plague, and enjoys at least three winters of peace, then I have not been sent by God Almighty. So, what greater means can there be to settle the matter. On my part, I swear by God Almighty that I am the Promised Messiah. I am the one who was promised by the Prophets. The Torah, the Gospel, and the Holy Quran all give news about me and the era of my advent and expound that, in the heavens, the