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as Th. a s_a~/taz o. f. Lucknovy, ·cfatetl Januiiry al~ jmya-·~. . ~. :· -~. :. . . . . . :. . . . . - ~--. . . . "The epicentre of tfie earthquake of 1905 lay fo-th. e valley of. Kangra, North·w~?t 1ndia::. . . . ;. ; ;, The epicentre 'Qf this present earthquake of 1934 is believed to lie. . in North. east lndia:" - -. In short, the prophecy of the Promised l\fossiah: that the -future great earthquake- in fodia would occur fo the N orth. . east ,9£ the country has n1et with so complete a folfilme. nt 'that no. one- who has eyes to see 1 ears to hear and possesses~ even a ~mo_dicum of commonseti:se. can deny it, ·Fifth Distinctive Feature The fifth distinctive feature of this earthquake is that it was to occur in the lifetime of Mirza Bashir Ahmed (the writer. ol these lines) who was to be·the first ·to. draw the attention of. the people to the prophecy of the Promised -M es·siah -rega:rdin:g it. ·This fact is proved by the dream of the Promised Messiah, ·which ha's already been quoted, wherei·n he saw me pointing towards the North-east and then heard me ·say : "The earth- quake has gone in this direction. " This part of the prophecy :has also-been 'fulfilled. Life is a. n uncertain thing, and death -has no appointed time to come. One may die at any moment. No one can guarantee ahont himself or about any other person that he will live to see such And such event happen. It was clearly the AH Knowing--and All-Seeing- God who twenty-seven 'years 11go inform<'. d His Messfah and Mahdi thaHn the North- east of India a terrible earthquake would occur in the lifetime of 'his son, Mirza Bashir Ahmed, and that he. V\'. ohld: b~ the first to '-recall the prophecy regarding it. Twenty•seven years is a 'long period;- but God aliowed-me to-Hve to·see the fulfilment: of His Word. The way in which after the happe~ing·of this earih- quake my mind was diverted to the prophecy in question is also worthy of note. The earthquake had occurred and 'for some ,days its reports had been appearing in the press. Then one night it so happened tnat I went to bed but could not ;:sieep; 'Being generally a good sleeper, i: could not acoo~ntdor this sleeples·mess. However, to make tee time pass,Jl took-',a collection of the prophecies of the Promised Messiah, entitled