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greater intensity- of,eold,than iti$ in the- eastern orthe :southern -parts-of the country; Bihar lies iri North-east India-where cwinter is milder and of a shorter duration, and consequently; the spring season there sets in earlier. Hence the words of the prophecy are perfectly true and the catastrophe did happen in spring. What is more, the Promised tviessiah while warning the people of the coming calamity himself makes the whole of tlie }nonth of January as falling within the spring season when he says that " the period of danger begins with the month of January. " (Alwasiyyat, page 14). There is yet another factor which adds to the singularity and w. onderfulness of this prophecy. It is this On February 28-, 1906, a few days after this revelation had been received, a mild 1:1arthqm~_ke shock was- experienced. As this shoe~{ had also_ occurred in the spring season and' the prophecy- could- be applied to it, the Promised Messiah announced the prophecy as h~ving been fulfilled. At this, God sent down this revelation ; "'The earthquake is to come," (vide a hand~bill regarding earthquake, dated March 1, 1906). On this revelation the Promised Messiah made this comment : "The earthquake that occurred. on the 28th of February last must not be regarded as being the earthquake which has been prophecied in God's revelation. This severe catastrophe is yet to come'' Then he goes on to say, '' Thi3 interpretation which I have put on the r~yelation in question is not from myself. It is God who has: inspired it in my mind," (vide Badr, Vol II, No. 2, and a hand-bill regarding earthquake, March, 1906). In short, this. Bihar earthquake, occurring as it has done exactly in the. beginning of spring, when in Bengal and Bihar the trees wer~ just putting forth their new and tender leaves, and following as it has done the assassination of King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, has fulfilled the prophecy of the Promised Messiah in a most wonderful way. Will the sincere truth· seeker ponder over this wonderful testimony of God to the truth of His Messiah and Mahdi and accept him ? North-east India as the Scene of Earthquake in God's Revelation The fourth characteristic f ea tu re of this earthquake as laid Qown in God's revelation is that it was to occur in the North•