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327 N u h’s Ark would continue to serve as an insurance against calamities and troubles ahead. And, when this teaching reached the Arabs in Arabic, some of them learned it by heart. It assumed the same importance as “Sermon of the Mount” by Jesus Christ, and actually it spelt out more effectively and forcefully his teachings than that his name sake had. The teachings contained in this book remain up to this day a landmark in the Movement, there could be no better way of expressing what had been stated in it. Impact Some of the papers of the time criticised the handbill issued about the book by the Promised Messiah as but the house of the Promised Messiah as was securely safe against this calamity. There were two instances worth recalling here, one happened in May 1904, the Promised Messiah as says: Once when the plague was at its peak and had touched the houses of non-Muslims in Qadian, Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i had developed fever and he thought he had become the victim of plague and he, like others, dictated his last Will. He was living in a part of my house, so I went to see him and enquired about his health and found him panicky and worried. Then I told him that if he had developed plague then I am an imposter and my claim to divine revelation is wrong. Saying this I felt his pulse and the moment I touched him, his body became cold and there was no sign of any fever. ( See Haqiqatul-Wahi , page 253, Heavenly Sign No. 103, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 22, p. 265) The other event took place in 1906, the Promised Messiah as says: I saw a number of dreams signifying some impending trial or tribulation for M i r N as ir Naw a b, who was my father-in-law, and then I prayed for him and his family. He wanted to go to Lahore, I advised him against this. . . .