1a:T665,{"@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 51","text":"","position":65,"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","name":"Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God"}}}9:["$","main",null,{"style":{"maxWidth":"800px","margin":"0 auto","padding":"2rem 1rem","backgroundColor":"white","minHeight":"100vh"},"children":[["$","script",null,{"type":"application/ld+json","dangerouslySetInnerHTML":{"__html":"$1a"}}],["$","header",null,{"style":{"textAlign":"center","marginBottom":"2rem"},"children":[["$","h1",null,{"style":{"fontSize":"1.75rem","marginBottom":"0.5rem","color"