The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 105
The Plague 105 that I am the Promised Messiah, the same whose advent was promised by the Prophets as. There is a prophecy regarding me and my time in the Torah, in the Gospels, as well as in the Holy Quran, which says that lunar and solar eclipses shall occur at the time and a severe plague shall visit the earth. . This then is my sign: If any of my opponentswhether he lives in Amroha, in Amritsar, in Delhi, in. Calcutta, in Lahore, in Golra, or in Batāla―declares under oath that his particular town will remain immune from the plague, then let me tell you that that town will most certainly be hit by the epidemic, for such a person shall be guilty of insolence towards God. [Dāfe‘-ul-Balā, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 18, pp. 221-238]. Since God Almighty knew that the plague would break out in this country on a large scale, and even. Qadian would not remain completely immune from it,. He had, therefore, already revealed to me twentythree years ago that anyone who would enter this mosque and this house, with sincerity and faith, would be saved from the plague. In the same context,. He also said to me in those days: إِنِّي أَحَافِظُ كُلَّ مَنْ فِي الدَّارِ - إِلَّا الَّذِينَ عَلَوْا مِنِ اسْتِكْبَارٍ وَأَحَافِظُكَ خَاصَّةً - سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبِّ رَّحِيمٍ. This means: I shall safeguard all those who dwell in thy house from death by the plague, with the exception of those who are arrogant and think highly of themselves. And I shall particularly safeguard thee. . Peace be on you from God, the Merciful.