Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page viii
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad viii He added: This is my sign ; each and every opponent—whether he lives in Amroha or Amritsar, whether in Delhi or Calcutta, whether in Lahore, Golra, or Batala—if any of them should swear on oath that their area of residence shall remain free from the plague, then it will surely be swept up by the plague, for they would have committed insolence against God Almighty. ( see p. 30 ) However, none of the opponents dared to make such a procla - mation and, in accordance with the prophecies of the scriptures, the plague proved to be a mighty sign of the truthfulness of the Promised Messiah as. 1 The Promised Messiah as attaches two endnotes to the books as a warning to Charagh Din of Jammu, who was once a member of the Community but had made claims to revelation and published material contrary to the message of the Promised Messiah as. The Promised Messiah as excommunicated him and admonished him to repent. In the second endnote the Promised Messiah as recorded a revelation about his utter destruction should he fail to repent. This prophecy was fulfilled in 1906, as the Promised Messiah as wrote: 1. The above introduction to the book has been translated from the intro - duction by Hadrat Maul a n a Jal a l-ud-D i n Shams ra in R uha n i Khaz a’ in, vol. 18, p. xii. [Publisher]