Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 34
34 found people scared and in distressful fear after hearing the afore- said news about the inoculation. Still I considered these people to be possessed of only as much wisdom as animals and thus, like the wise, I did not take them into account nor what they said. I was still engaged in removing this misconception and refuting it and making people realise their error when all of a sudden I received some official newspapers from the government that contained a very important and sad piece of news, such that listening to it sent a shudder through my body and caused all my efforts to stumble. Like those who are already sad, I read the news and said, ‘To Allah do we belong and to Him shall we return. ’ And, this was the news that I had already published prior to receiving the news of the ter- rible deaths and I had stated that protection and security had been granted to us and not to those who would get inoculated. Indeed, this is a sign from among the great signs and a great miracle from among the miracles. So, I am happy that it has been manifested. However, I also lament the tragedy of those wailing widows and those orphaned children who, as a result of this inoculation, said farewell to their elders before time. Hence, I bewail the day when they offered themselves for inoculation! Had they instead come to me as believers, they would have surely been saved from this great calamity. How would you know what this calamity is? Again, how would you know what this great calamity is? Know that there is a town called Malakw a l in our country. The vaccination team happened to reach this town with a group of men and they gently and tactfully invited the people to get inoculated. Thus their death and destruction was decreed. They came up to the vaccination team and were nineteen in number.