Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 587
EPILOGUE-SIGNS وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِالصَّوَابِ. will send down some other heavenly afflictions 587 [And Allah knows best]. This prophecy along with its interpretation was published in the peri- odical Review of Religions and the newspapers Badr and al-Ḥakam as many as nine months before its fulfilment, and the time for its fulfil- ment was fixed to be the season of spring. It has been clearly fulfilled. That is to say, exactly when the spring season arrived and the gardens became laden with flowers and buds, Allah the Exalted fulfilled His promise as follows. There was unusually heavy snowfall in Kashmir, Europe, and America, the details of which we will—God willing― presently write down by quoting excerpts from newspapers. But in exact conformity with the intent of the prophecy, such excessive cold and heavy rain struck this country, and in that particular part of the country indicated in the prophecy, that the whole country cried out in panic. At the same time snowfall was so heavy in some parts of the country that people were left awestruck and wondered what was going to happen. For instance, just today a letter from Kashmir was received by Haji Umar Dār (who is a resident of Kashmir but is currently stay- ing with me here in Qadian; the letter is from his son 'Abdur-Raḥmān) saying that snowfall these days has been so heavy that there is a snow cover three yards deep upon the land and the entire atmosphere has been covered by clouds every day. Now this is such a phenomenon that has left the residents of Kashmir amazed because such heavy snowfall in the spring is unusual. And as for the amount of heavy rain that has fallen in this country, some reports are reproduced below from some newspapers testifying to it. First from Akhbar-e-Am, Lahore, dated 21 February 1907, briefly reproduced below is what this paper reported on page 2 about the rains: The situation in Lahore is such that for more than two weeks the sky has been overcast and instead of making people happy