Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 223
223 Plague Remedies Suggested by various Religious Sects AND The only true Remedy revealed by the Almighty God. The various religious sects are nob silent upon this subject The Muhammadans suggest, as appears from a handbill issued by the Secretary of the Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam, Lahore, that all the Muhammadan schisms, in every town and village, should gather together on a certain date at a certain hour of the day, and forgetting their sectarian differences for a moment. should all together pray to God to take away this affliction. This measure, it is asserted, shall afford ao instantaneous relief from this visitation. The publisher of the hand-bill, however makes no suggestions as to the manner in which the sectarian differences can be removed- and prayers said together by the various Muslim sects, for there are essential differences among them which according to one sect, render void the prayers of the other. We are not, moreover, told what the Hindus are to do at this time of general affliction. Are they too allowed to seek the assistance of their idols? Should the Christians worship and beseech Jesus Christ to save them from this des- truction ? We ought also to have been informed^as to the. course which those sects should take which look upon AH or Husain as their deliverer and the supplier of all their needs or which worship Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, or Shah Madar or Shaik Sarwar. All these sects call themselves Muhammadans, but in the above mentioned announcement no directions are contain- ed for them and we are not told whether, being Muhammadans, they should or should not, call upon their own deities for assis- tance. We may also ask another question from the advertisers of this general prayer at a fixed hour whether all their various sects are not now, frightened and terror-stricken, engaged in