Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 304
304 Wait and see how and when these warnings are fulfilled. There are times when prayers bring death, and times when they bring life. When this last prophecy was published, the plague had only bro - ken out in Bombay and had stopped spreading after a year. People were relieved that the doctors had stopped its spread but Divine warnings hinted otherwise. When general complacency had been induced by the belief that the disease had come and gone, and when Punjab, except for one or two villages, seemed quite safe, and when its ravages had been more or less halted in Bombay, the Promised Messiah as published the following announcement: I am constrained to write about an important matter and this owing only to overwhelming sympathy. I know that those devoid of spirituality will tend to ridicule my state - ment, nevertheless, out of sympathy for humankind, it is my duty to warn people. The warning is as follows. Today, February 6, 1898, Monday, I saw in a dream that God’s angels were planting black seedlings in different parts of Punjab. The seedlings looked ugly, black, menacing, and stunted. I asked some of the angels about them and was told that they were the seedlings of the plague which was about to spread in the country. 27 It was not clear to me whether it was to break out in the winter of this year or the next. But what I saw was quite terrifying. I have already received a revelation about the plague in the past. It said, ‘Verily Allah does not change the lot of a people unless they first change their hearts. ’ 28 This means that until sin,