Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 32
32 there is no one in my knowledge to whom this information has not reached, and there is no ear that this news did not ring, so much so that this prophecy reached the British government and its officials, and spread in all lands and among their dwellers, and people enormously grew in their taunts and criticism at me and I witnessed a kind of Doomsday from their tongues. It was then that I addressed them and told them, ‘Surely, we are supported by God and we have been granted glad tiding, and we will certainly be saved, and that if this statement of mine does not prove to be true, then I will not be from among the truthful and there will not be a liar worse than me in the entire world. And even if the plague is like mountains, my Lord will cause it to be blown up for my sake, and if it is like a flash flood that is so fatal, He will cause it to dry up. We are safer and more protected than others. So wait a while and then if you find us to be the losers, you may say whatever you like. God willing, we will spend these days in peace. ’ Yet, none of my opponents listened to me. Instead, they mocked, ridiculed and tormented me in all kinds of ways. I continued to be a target of the arrows and spears of their words until the promised time came and what was destined was fulfilled, which was that when the plague strengthened its cordon and completed its siege in all directions, the government became apprehensive and invited a group of experts to start inoculation. At that time I thought in my heart that whatever the government had done, it had done with a good intention, but it is a war against divine decreed. And that to stand up against the decree of Allah is to procure defeat, and to wake up against it is to fall asleep, and to strive against it is to suffer a halt, and to consider oneself to be wise is to show that one is mad, and to consider oneself to be judicious is to show that one