Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 385
2 May 1908 385 hundreds of other heavenly and earthly disasters. How can one feel safe with these taking place? Behold! Even this plague is a powerful Sign of my truth. I had foretold the coming of this disease upon receiving rev- elation from Allah the Exalted at a time when there was no sign or trace of it in the Punjab. And this is not simply a mere verbal claim of mine. I had informed the world that the dan- gerous plague was about to spread in the country by writing about it again and again in my books and in the newspapers of this Movement, and that everyone should occupy himself in repentance and seeking forgiveness and bringing about a pious change in themselves before it struck. Nevertheless, there were but a few who believed in the truth of my warning and paid heed to it. I had seen [in a vision] that there were some people who were planting trees that were black in colour throughout dif- ferent parts of the land. When asked, they replied that these were the trees of plague. Then I saw a beast resembling an ele- phant whose body parts looked like the body parts of different animals, but its overall appearance was that of an elephant. I saw that that elephant would go into the wilderness sometimes in one direction and then in another—here and there—and would attack different types of wild animals like deer, goats, snakes, rabbits, etc. and devour them. When it would attack the animals a veritable cacophony of doomsday would erupt from the noise the animals would make. I could hear the sound of it chomping on the bones etc. After finishing on one side, it would approach me. A meek and humble expression was evi- dent on its face and it appeared as if it was saying, ‘How am I to be blamed for this? I am appointed to do this. I am merely obeying the command given to me. ’ After pausing for a short while with me, it would go in the other direction and do the same as before, and then it would