Life of Ahmad — Page 588
588 CHAPTER 61 PLAGUE Ahmad as lived in close and constant communion with God, who informed him beforehand sometimes even of small things of daily occurrence as a mark of His love and affection. As the appearance of plague affected millions of men with whose spiritual regeneration Ahmad as was most concerned, so He informed him beforehand as to what was going to happen. On February 6th, 1897 144 , Ahmad as issued a leaflet declaring that God had told him through a vision that this ugly and dreadful disease was being implanted throughout the Punjab and that it would rage in the province shortly. His love and sympathy for his fellow-beings was so great and deep that he could not let this opportunity go without issuing an earnest appeal to all men to do whatever was humanly 144 He had had definite indications of the visitation of plague much earlier. They are found even in his book Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya which was published in 1884 (See pages 506, 507, 510 & 519).