Signs of the Living God — Page 10
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 10 Al-Hakm Vol. 9, Issue. 7, p. 11). Similarly, he foretold news of the earthquake which struck on 4 April 1905, before its occurrence with the words: ززلہل اک داکھ ‘Shock of earthquake’ (December 1903). [Again God revealed]: وَ مُقَامَھَا عَفَتِ الدِّیَرُ مَِلُّھَا That is, the earthquake would be so severe it would demolish buildings from their foundations and both temporary residences a nd permanent ones will be raised from their foundations and collapse. The latter revelation was published a year before the earthquake occurred in the newspaper Al-Hakm on 31 May 1904, and Al-Badr on 24 May and 1 June 1904. Following this revelation an earthquake duly devastated the Kangra Valley and claimed 30,000 lives. The number of injured was even higher. Whole villages were completely destroyed and the Punjab was convulsed from one end to another. For miles on end, lives and property were destroyed in towns and villages and its tremors were felt outside the Punjab, as far as even Bengal. Never in its history had India seen an earthquake of this magnitude. Again, at the time of the announcement of the partition of Bengal, all high-ranking government officials