8:null 18:T729,{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad"},"inLanguage":"en","url":"/library/books/defence-plague-criterion-elect-god","image":"https://files.alislam.cloud/cover/defence-plague-criterion-elect-god/Defence-Against-Plague-Criterion-for-Elect-of-God.jpg","description":"The third plague pandemic claimed millions of lives in India, and raged with particular intensity in the Punjab province. By 1902, it had encroached within a few miles of the environs of Qadian.\r\n\r\nTwenty-two years earlier, the Promised Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad^(as) of Qadian, had prophesied the outbreak of such a plague. He boldly proclaimed on the basis of the divine revelation that, as a sight of his truthfulness, God would safeguard Qadian -- even though it lay directly in the path of this ravaging disease. The Promised Messiah^(as) also pointed out that God had foretold in previous holy scriptures that He would send a severe plague as a warning in the Latter Days, when the Promised Messiah would appear.\r\n\r\nIn Defence Against the Plague, the Promised Messiah^(as) reviews various proposals put forward to fight the bubonic plague, and then prescribes the true method for deliverance -- that people should reform themselves and accept the Promised Messiah^(as) commissioned by God.","hasPart":{"@type":"WebPage","name":"Page 43","text":"This treatise has been named: دَافِعُ الْبَلَاءِ وَمِعْيَارُ أَهْلِ الْإِصْطِفَاءِ [Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God]","position":57,"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","name":"Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God"}}}

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