Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 162
162 confusion which ensued, the doctor found an opportu- nity to escape, God thus conferring new life upon him. The other incident is more recent. During the last decade, plague, which had ravaged the country in accordance with the prophecy, and as a proof of the truth of the Promised Messiah as , began to subside and the number of seizures during the last two or three years was so small that the Government was able to express the hope that it would be entirely stamped out within a year or two. Early last winter however, I saw in a dream a plague-stricken man and some buffaloes which ran about in the streets. Buffaloes in the language of dreams indicate pestilence. I had the dream published in the Al - fa d l , warning the people that a severe outbreak of plague was impending. 71 Within a month cases of plague began to occur and in February 1924, it assumed the form of an epidemic. During March, April and May the epidemic assumed very serious proportions and the weekly mortality list swelled to between eight and thirteen thousand. The total mortality has so far ex- ceeded a hundred and fifty thousand which is more than the total mortality of the last five years from plague. I have cited these two incidents merely as in- stances. God has, on numerous occasions, revealed to me the knowledge of things hidden and thousands of Ahmadis have had similar experiences with reference to the different attributes of God. It must, however, be remembered that such experiences are vouchsafed to 71 The Daily Al-fa d l , November 24, 1923.