Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 14
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 14 Were it not for favouring and honouring you, this town would have been destroyed. I am the Gracious One who removes affliction. My Messengers have no fear or grief in My presence. I am keeping watch. I shall stand with My Messenger and shall rebuke the one who rebukes him. I shall divide My time—for a part of the year, I shall break the fast, that is, I shall destroy people with plague, and for another part of the year, I shall fast, that is, there will be peace and the plague will subside or vanish completely. I am greatly wroth. Diseases will spread and people will die except those who believe and do not adulterate their faith with the least wrong; they will remain secure and will be saved. Do not imagine that the criminals are secure; We are getting close to their lands. I am secretly preparing My armies; that is, I am nourishing the bacteria of plague, so they will be left sleeping in their homes like a dead camel. We shall show them Our Signs in the distant people and then in their own selves. These will be days of help from Allah and clear victory. I have made a bargain with you, that is, something belonged to Me, but has been given in your possession and something was yours, but now it belongs to Me. Do you also acknowledge that bargain and say: ‘My Lord has made a bargain with me. ’ You are to Me like My children. ✩ You are from Me and I am from you. I It must be remembered that God Almighty has no sons. He has no as - sociate and no son; nor does anyone have the right to claim to be God or the son of God. However, this phrase is used here by way of allegor - ical and metaphorical expression. As for instance in the Holy Quran,