On 11 February 1906, a prophecy was made about Bengal, the exact wording of which is as follows:
Concerning the order that had been issued with regard to Bengal, they will now be consoled.
As everyone knows, its details are that the Government had implemented the order concerning the division of Bengal. This order had so frustrated the Bengalis as to cause veritable mourning in Bengali homes. They tried hard to stop the division of Bengal, but failed. On the contrary, the Government officials did not like their agitation. I do not even need to get into the details of the action Government officials took in this regard. In particular, they [Bengalis] considered Lt. Governor Fuller as their angel of death. It so happened that when the Bengalis were suffering at the hands of their officials and were near to death due to Sir Fuller’s administration, I received the revelation mentioned above that is:
Concerning the order that had been issued with regard to Bengal, they will now be consoled.
I, therefore, published this prophecy during those very days. This prophecy came to be fulfilled thus: Fuller, the Lt. Governor of Bengal, at whose hands the Bengalis had suffered so much so that their cries had reached the heavens, suddenly resigned. The papers showing the cause of his resignation have not been published. But the jubilation the Bengalis have expressed at Fuller’s resignation—as is indicated by the Bengali newspapers—is a witness above all others that the Bengalis have felt consolation by the resignation of Fuller. Their joyous meetings and shouts of jubilation testify that Fuller’s resignation has indeed consoled them; nay rather, they were entirely consoled and they considered Fuller’s resignation to be a great favour of the Government upon them. In short, the expediency with which the reason of Fuller’s resignation was concealed by the Government is being exposed by the extreme delight of the Bengalis. What greater proof of the fulfilment of the prophecy could there be than that the Bengalis themselves have acknowledged their consolation in this episode and have expressed extreme gratitude to the Government? This prophecy of mine was not only published in our journal, the Review of Religions, but was also published by a number of newspapers of the Punjab. Even some famous newspapers of Bengal had published this prophecy.
Another proof that this prophecy has been fulfilled is that Amrita Bazaar Patrika, Calcutta, the most well-known English language newspaper of the Bengal, writes—and the following lines which have been reproduced by the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore in its issue of 22 August 1906:
The likelihood is that his [i.e., Fuller’s] successor [the new Lt. Governor] will follow a quite conciliatory policy. Of course this is very desirable…
These words of the above-mentioned paper also show that it has expressed its satisfaction that the new Lt. Governor would be duty-bound to keep on consoling the Bengalis. As such the above-mentioned newspaper too is a witness to the fulfilment of the prophecy.
In the end, I produce here another strong argument in support of the fulfilment of the prophecy. A British officer who has held a senior Government post for fifty years, writes in a long letter published in the newspaper, the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, in its issue dated 24 August 1906, in which it is disclosed that Sir Fuller’s resignation is in exact conformity with the wishes of the Bengali babus [respectable citizens]:
…under our regime these schoolboys have political potentialities so powerful that their action has compelled the resignation of a Lieutenant-Governor! His successor has, no doubt received and accepted a “mandate” [from the higher authorities] to deal in a conciliatory spirit with these Babu urchins.
Now mark the clarity with which this prophecy was fulfilled. God continues to manifest ever fresh Signs. Alas! How heedless are the hearts that they still do not accept. I have become so filled with conviction because of these successive Signs as an ocean is filled with water. But what a pity! My opponents have not tasted even a single drop of this pure water. One simply cannot imagine the enormity of this misfortune. There is not a single nation among whom the Signs in my favour have not appeared, and there is not a sect that is not a witness to my Signs. It would be no exaggeration to say that the number of witnesses to these Signs is as much as 100,000,000. But the plight of the opponents is pitiable indeed that they did not derive any benefit from these Signs. Had these Signs that have been shown to them, been shown to the Jews at the time of Hadrat ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryam [ Jesus son of Mary], they would not have been characterized as [‘those smitten with abasement’]. Had Lut’s [Lot’s] people witnessed these Signs, they would not have been buried under the earth on account of that massive earthquake. But, woe be upon these hearts that proved to be harder than stone! The darkness that has overtaken their hearts exceeds every kind of darkness. The fact of the matter is that just as the world has progressed in respect of all kinds of material means, so has it advanced in disbelief and lack of faith. Hence this ‘advanced’ disbelief requires that it should not be visited by any ordinary chastisement, rather it should be overtaken by a chastisement the like of which has never descended since the beginning of the world. At any rate, thousands of thanks be to God that the light that our opponents refused to accept and remained blind, the same light became the cause of advancement of our own sight and spiritual insight.
We drank water from the springs of Allah—The water of resplendent revelation—until we were satiated.
We witnessed a Sun of Allah’s glory, So we believed and testified with certainty and conviction.
One kind of His Signs appeared among my own Jama‘at, While the other kind appeared among the disbelieving horde.