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A false claimant to divine revelation is soon removed from the world by Allah the Almighty. It is an immutable law of God. Mirza, the signatory of the above declaration had, having denied the Promised Messiah, peace be upon him, prophesied his death and destruction on the basis of his vision. He perished due to the chastisement of plague in the same month of Ramadan when the declaration was written exactly one year later, that is, he died on 7 Ramadan 1322. Earlier his wife had died too and it was his own household that was destroyed. Therefore, our village folk should learn a lesson from this and should believe in the truth of our holy master.
Written dated 7 Ramadan AH 1322.
This humble writer—[Hakim Karam Dad], sent the above declaration for publication to the late Babu Muhammad Afdal, Editor Al-Badr at Darul-Aman [Qadian]. The latter sent it back with the note that he does not accept such articles for publication in his newspaper. This prophecy became known all around this place too, and people started saying, ‘Let us see who wins! Will it be the Mirza of Qadian or the Mirza of Dulmial?’ Indeed, our opponents even started praying after the congregational prayers for the success of their Faqir Mirza. One day it so happened that a Hindu sergeant was reading to Faqir Mirza the newspaper Sirajul-Akhbar which told that Hakim Fadl Din was so gravely ill that he had to be carried on a charpoy to the court at Gurdaspur. On hearing this news, the ‘recipient’ of revelation, happily declared, ‘Now the time has come for the destruction of the Mirza of Qadian and its signs have started to appear.’ But the poor fellow did not know that his own destruction was close at hand, for a short while later the forces of plague camped in that area. The so-called recipient of revelation was proudly confident that, due to his presence, his entire neighbourhood would remain immune from the plague.
When the next Ramadan arrived, the plague broke out in his neighbourhood. At that time, the following four persons were in his household; firstly, the [so-called] mulham [recipient of revelation] himself, secondly the wife of the mulham, thirdly his daughter and fourth his son’s wife. First the wife of the mulham died of plague; then on the evening of the fifth or sixth of Ramadan, 1322, Faqir Mirza himself contracted a severe case of the plague and became tongue-tied at the same time. On account of intense swelling and suffocation, it looked as if blood was dripping from his eyes. Ultimately, exactly one year later, on the day the prophecy was made, i.e. on 7 Ramadan 1322, he perished. The two girls who were left behind also fell ill seriously after a few days. I, [the present writer, Hakim Karam Dad], was summoned for treatment. On seeing their dire condition, I was scared. I advised those who were nursing them to take their sister away as the wrath of God was visiting that dwelling. This they did and she recovered after a few days. The daughter of the mulham, died in the same house and joined her father the next day. So the household of the Mirza of Dulmial, instead of the Movement of Hadrat Mirza Sahib of Qadian, perished on 7 Ramadan instead of 27 Ramadan.
The second Sign is that ‘Ata Muhammad, son of Subedar Ghulam Muhammad Khan, was bitten by a rabid dog and died of the infection from the dog’s virus. The same rabid dog had also bitten ‘Abdul-Majid, the son of the present writer.1 It so happened that the local residents brought a Sayyed who would halt the plague by setting up a circle. However, I did not join in that circle. Early next morning my son ‘Abdul-Majid fell ill. The slightest sound or noise caused terrible convulsions. His face would turn blue due to asphyxiation from the spasm of respiratory muscles and appeared as if his breathing would stop at any time.
Since all had witnessed the condition of the Subedar’s son, everyone said that the boy was about to die. I, the writer, too considered the boy medically as good as dead. On the other hand, I observed the taunting remarks of the opponents that it was the consequence of ignoring the elders and not joining in the circle. In short, this stress made me miserable. Thereupon I fell prostrate and began to pray, saying: ‘O Merciful God, who helps the helpless and humble, and who has mercy on the sinner! You know that my enemies are jubilant today simply because I believe your Messenger and Emissary Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi. Therefore, O God, my Lord! Grant You health to this boy, so that this corpse, by his revival, may be a Sign for the truth of the Messiah of Muhammad.’ After this prayer, those alarming signs began to subside, until, in a few days, he was restored to full health, alhamdulillah [all praise belongs to Allah].
This Sign has been witnessed by everyone in our village. Even the worst of our opponents dare not deny that; indeed, all the symptoms peculiar to this disease were present in the illness of my dear son ‘Abdul-Majid. To be bitten by the rabid dog and then the death of the son of the Subedar with the same symptoms due to the infection from the same dog—all this had been directly witnessed by the people of the village. Yet they are so steeped in bias and bigotry that they never cease to oppose us. O God’s dear Messenger! Allah has been so Merciful to me, the sinful, and, out of sheer grace has He demonstrated, in my own house, the miracle of restoring the dead to life. Do pray that Allah Almighty may grant us and the rest of our brethren to be your obedient servants to the end of our days and may be with you on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement. Amin.
Written by, your humble servant
Karam Dad,
From (Village) Dulmial, District Jhelum
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