Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 590
590 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION that people began to cry for escape; sometimes rain, sometimes snow, sometimes hailstorms, and then piled up clouds seemed as if hiding behind a veil and the people are longing to see the sun and feel its rays. Not a single day passes without the falling of snow or hailstones, and if this does not happen, then it defi- nitely rains. And sometimes during the day it becomes so dark because of intense smoke-like clouds that it is not possible to function without artificial light. And it is so very cold that water, if left in the open at night, freezes and becomes ice by the morning. These days one simply cannot drink water without first warming it up. Simla is now totally snowbound on all four sides and nothing is visible except snow. All trees and houses are buried under layers of snow and it is bitterly cold. Further on, the same newspaper says: In this country rains are so widespread that areas which other- wise used to complain of lack of rain have also tasted rain. Similarly, the newspaper Jāsūs of Agra reports on page 4 of its issue dated 15 February 1907: On 6 February 1907, it rained very heavily during the evening in Kanpur. A thunderstorm struck and such a hailstorm occurred that the railway service had to be suspended. Furthermore, the newspaper Ahl-e-Hadith of Amritsar in its issue dated 22 February 1907, 8 Muḥarramul-Ḥarām AH 1325, states on page 11: This week there has been incessant rain in these parts, indeed in the entire length and breadth of Punjab. There was a terrible hailstorm on the night of 19 February [1907]. Lord Krishna of