Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 244
244 who got inoculated were not immune to it. Yet, the members of his household remained safe, even though they had adopted no precautionary measures and did not leave their houses to live in open spaces. Even the animals living in the house were not affected. The household was not a small one, to begin with, but during the plague, many more people had sought shelter within its walls. If the plague had not appeared in Qadian at all or had not affected his neighbourhood, all this could have been put down to chance, but the fact that the plague appeared in Qadian and affected the Promised Messiah’s as neighbourhood but did not affect any person or even a creature living in his household, and the fact that all this happened after he had announced the proph - ecy that angels would make the plague subservient to him, unde - niably proves that angels had been commanded to obey him and to help him and that they employed all the natural causes under their control to protect him. That natural causes were made subservient to him is estab - lished through many other examples but I believe the above instances will suffice to open the reader’s eyes to the truth of these miracles and to the fact that one who is granted such help and protection can never be a liar and impostor.