Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 682
THE PLAGUE he, a companion of the Messiahas, should meet such an end, contrary to the Divine promise. The agony of the plague in itself was unbearable, add to this the torture of conscience which might have tormented him, lest in the sight of God he was counted out of His true servants. . Thus he tossed in his bed and cried and wailed that someone should hasten to the Promised Messiahas to inform him of his miserable plight and urge him to visit him and bless him. This is what the Promised Messiahas did forthwith. It did not perturb him in the least that the patient was medically declared to be suffering from plague. He went to his bedside and put his hand on the forehead of. Maulawi Sahib, speaking words of solace and comfort, reassuring him that as certainly as he was the true Messiah,. Maulawi Sahib would not die of plague. It did not take. Maulawi Sahib long to watch these prophetic words fulfilled. As the Promised Messiah as stood talking to him, his hand still resting on his forehead, his temperature subsided rapidly, leaving no sign of the fever or the plague behind. He sat up and touched himself here and there, bewildered at the rapidity with which the fever had vanished. So also were bewildered those who sat around awaiting his death but were destined instead to watch the miracle of his survival. He lived many long years after that before he died in Lahore in 1951, at the ripe old age of 77. . H ow COULD the plague differentiate between people who believed in the Promised Messiah and those who did not will always remain a mystery, but not for those who believe in the limitless attributes of the. Omnipotent God. . A genuine question arises here as to what solid evidence can be presented for the satisfaction of neutral enquiry in support of whatever has been recorded in this chapter as facts. The problem is that the only direct 640