Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 520
520 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION We have seen with our own eyes¹ and heard with our own ears that the opponents used to ridicule and mock the proph- ecy of His Holiness the Messiah of the Age, peace be upon him, regarding the plague which was to overtake the Punjab that had been published four years ago and would demand where the promised plague was. In addition to all this, when there are hundreds of precedents in the Holy Quran and other sacred Scriptures to the effect that in the earlier ages too, the end of those who rejected each and every appointee of God has invariably been death and destruction, and every people were visited by a different kind of affliction, then is there anything that can prevent us from believing that the present chastise- ment is also the result of the very same opposition? Not at all! Indeed, without the least shadow of any doubt, this too is the same weapon of glory and wrath of God Almighty that has always come into being to destroy the opponents of His true Messengers. Now that we know the cause, we should try to apply the cure which is as follows: We should accept the claim of the Imam of this age, the Promised Messiah (peace and blessings be upon him); sincerely choose to put on the yoke of obedience to him and try to live, with all honesty, under the benign influence of his guidance and attain a holy and living spiritual transformation which is free from all sin and rebellion. As such each person, family, tribe, or residents of a town who choose to do so shall, by God's grace, be saved from this affliction, because the door to divine acceptance is still open. Therefore, repentance on anyone's part, if sincere, will be accepted. But a time is about to come when people will repent 1. [Comment by the Promised Messiah as] God knows what happened to these eyes afterwards.