The heavens are raining Signs—the earth proclaims it is indeed the time!
These two witnesses so eagerly testify to my truth!

A Bright Sign

197. [One Hundred Ninety-Seventh Sign]

In the newspaper Badr of 14 March 1907 (28 Muharram AH 1325) was published a revelation received by me on 7 March 1907 that was disclosed to me by way of a prophecy. Its intent, as I was made to understand, was also published in the 14 March issue of the same paper. This revelation which appears on page 3, column 1 of the newspaper mentioned above is as follows:

Twenty-five days or until twenty-five days.

Meaning that, taking effect as of 7 March 1907, on the twenty-fifth day or by the twenty-fifth day—that is, 31 March—some new phenomenon is going to be manifested.

And what I was made to understand in this revelation has also been recorded in the same column which is as follows: ‘The revelation indicates that upon the very lapse of twenty-five days from 7 March 1907, or within twenty-five days from 7 March, some new phenomenon will make its appearance. And it is but necessary that the providence of God will hold back this phenomenon for a period of twenty-five days beginning as of 7 March 1907 or that this event will happen within twenty-five days from 7 March 1907. If we interpret it [the revelation] in terms of twenty-five days, it necessarily follows that we should expect the event to happen on 1 April [1907],1because according to the revelation 7 March is part of the stipulated twenty-five days. In this case the prescribed limit of twenty-five days ends on 31 March [1907]. With regard to the question as to what exactly the phenomenon will be which has been prophesied, I am unable to say anything except that it will be an amazing or terrible occurrence which, subsequent to its appearance, will demonstrate the fulfilment of a prophecy.’ See the Newspaper Badr dated 14 March 1907, first and second column.

After this, the manner in which this prophecy was fulfilled is as follows: Exactly on 31 March 1907—the completion of twenty-five days from 7 March—a huge fiery flame appeared in the sky and, with a frightening flash that caused hearts to tremble, was observed over a distance of more than 700 miles (according to present observation; it might have been more) to be falling upon the earth. The thousands of people who watched this awe-striking phenomenon were astounded and some of them fell down unconscious by its impact and had to be administered water to regain consciousness. Most of those who observed it have described it as a fiery ball of a most awe-striking and extraordinary nature that appeared to fall upon the earth and then to rise towards the sky in the form of smoke. Some people also say that like a tail one part of it consisted of smoke and many people say that it was a terrible ball of fire which came from the north and travelled towards the south while some say that it came from the south and travelled towards the north. It all happened at about five o’clock in the evening. Again some others say that a huge body of fire appeared in the west and then moved far towards the east. It looked very prominent and threatening; at times it came so close to the earth that people everywhere felt it would at any moment fall to the ground. Elderly people testified that they had never seen such a terrible and awe-inspiring spectacle before. A summary of the letters received from different places has been incorporated into this account by way of testimony. These reports were received from many different places, among them being: Kashmir, Rawalpindi, Pindi Ghaip, Jhelum, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Wazirabad, Amritsar, Lahore, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Bassi Sirhind, Patiala, Kangra, Bhera, Khushab, etc. A gentleman, Mr. Khuda Bakhsh from Rawalpindi writes that this fiery Sign has also been seen in India. Therefore, it would be absolutely correct to say that Allah the Exalted has caused this rain of fire in these countries by way of warning. As I had announced earlier:

O negligent ones! The heavens are about to rain fire!

So did God fulfil this prophecy and although there was not any damage done—only some people fainted—this rain of fire does forewarn of a major chastisement in the future. O ye who listen! Become alert now, lest you regret later.

This is one of the Signs from among those Signs about which God had informed me and had said: ‘I shall demonstrate sixty or seventy more Signs, of which the last will turn the earth upside down and hundreds of thousands of people will die in an instant.’ [This will happen] because of the failure on the part of the people to accept God’s Messenger. Terrible earthquakes will take place and deaths shall occur in terrible ways and catastrophes shall descend in ways never before seen until mankind is baffled about what will transpire. All this will happen because of the [spiritual] death of the earth. Mankind witnessed the Signs of God but did not accept them. They became worse than the worms found in excrement and lost faith in the existence of God. This is why God says that, ‘I shall manifest Myself in an awe-striking manner, and demonstrate fearsome Signs and wipe out hundreds of thousands from the face of the earth.’ But who cared to believe in me and who cared to accept these my statements!

Twenty-six years before today, the God of Honour and Glory declared in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya:

I shall demonstrate My light and shall raise you with a demonstration of My power. A Warner came unto the world, but the world accepted him not; yet God shall accept him and demonstrate his truthfulness with mighty assaults.

Among those divine assaults is this rain of blazing flames which this country witnessed. These are the kind of Signs which Prophet Musa [Moses] had shown to Pharaoh, but the Signs that are going to be manifested will be far greater than those of Prophet Musa. This is why after naming me Musa, God says:

There is a Musa whom I shall make manifest and upon whom I shall bestow honour in the eyes of people but as for him who has sinned against Me, I shall drag him and show him Hell.

In other words, people paid no heed to the appearance of ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryam, but now I shall manifest this servant of mine with the qualities of Musa2 and will show to Pharaoh and Haman such days the like of which they feared.

Therefore, my dear friends, quite like Masih Ibn-e-Maryam [the Messiah, Son of Mary], for a very long time I continued to suffer grief at the hands of the people and they did with me whatever they so desired, but now God has named me Musa by which it can be understood that my opponents have been named Pharaoh by Him. And this designation is not something new that happened today. Indeed, it was bestowed upon me twenty-six years ago when Allah the Exalted named me Musa in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, and said:

You are to Me like Musa [Moses].

And then again, after naming me Musa, in the same Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, God Almighty said:

[And when his Lord manifested Himself on the mountain, He broke it into pieces and Musa fell down unconscious.]

But since God Almighty began with tender grace and demonstrated His forbearance in full, I was, therefore, named Ibn-e-Maryam, who suffered at the hands of his people; he was severely tormented and persecuted and dragged into the courts; and he was maligned as a disbeliever, an impostor, an accursed one, and a dajjal; but not content with this they further sought to murder him. However, since he was the Elect of God and of those who always have God by their side, those wicked people could not extinguish the light He radiated. Thus, God, who accomplishes everything gradually, first of all designated me as ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryamas for this age, for it was necessary that in my early days I should be persecuted by the people like Ibn-e-Maryamas and should be called kafir, the accursed and dajjal and that I should be dragged into courts. Thus, to be Ibn-e-Maryam was my first stage; however, in the records of God, I am not only named ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryamas. I also have other names which Allah the Exalted made me write down with my own hands twenty-six years ago in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. There has been no Prophet in the world whose name has not been bestowed upon me. Thus has God said in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya that I am Adam (as), I am Nuh (as) [Noah], I am Ibrahim (as) [Abraham], I am Ishaq (as) [Isaac], I am Ya‘qub (as) [ Jacob], I am Isma‘il (as) [Ishmael], I am Musa (as) [Moses], I am Dawud (as) [David], I am ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (as) [ Jesus son of Mary], I am Muhammad (sa) by way of reflection since God bestowed all these names upon me in that book and called me:

Meaning: the Messenger of God in the mantles of all the Prophets.

It, therefore, follows that I should manifest the grandeur of each Prophet, and some attributes of each Prophet should be exhibited in me, but God desired that first of all He should exhibit the attributes of ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (as) through me. Thus, I bore all such pain and suffering at the hands of my people as were borne by ‘Isa Ibn-e-Maryam at the hands of the Jews—indeed I bore such pain and suffering from all peoples. In spite of all this, God was pleased to retain the title of the Messiahas for me for the purpose of breaking the Cross so that the Cross which had broken and wounded the Messiah should, this second time, be broken by the Messiah—but with heavenly Signs, not with human hands—for the Prophets of God cannot be left in a state of subjugation. Thus, in the twentieth century of the Christian era, God decided that the Cross should be vanquished at the hands of the Messiah. But as I have just stated, I have been given other names as well, and the name of every Prophet has been bestowed upon me. Thus have I also been given the name of Krishna who appeared as a Prophet in India, and who is also called Ruddar Gopal (that is, the Annihilator and the Nourisher). Thus, I am indeed the Krishna whose advent the Aryas are awaiting in this age. I do not make this claim on my own, but Allah the Exalted, has repeatedly disclosed to me that:

Krishna who was destined to appear in the Latter Days is your very self. The King of Aryas.

‘Kingdom’ here exclusively means spiritual kingdom. Such terms do occur in the divine word but they have a spiritual connotation. By way of proving, therefore, that I am indeed [in the spiritual sense] the Promised Krishna, the King of Aryas, I reproduce below with translation in the footnote a recent announcement by a pundit from Delhi named Balam Kund which will show that even the recognized pundits of the Aryah faith have also declared that this is the time of the advent of Krishna3 the Avatar and they are waiting for him to appear in this age.

They do not yet recognize me, but the time is approaching and is near, when they will recognize me, for God’s hand will demonstrate to them that I am the one who was to come.

Turning again to my objective, I write that since I am the last Khalifah, therefore, as all Prophets have warned, it was but necessary that all kinds of wondrous Signs and manifestations of divine displeasure should make their appearance. So shall it be that I should remain alive until the Signs and wonders of divine wrath appear. Since the beginning of the world no one has ever seen such an age before. This is the last battle between the angels of God and the satans. As a matter of fact, this ball of fire which has appeared visible in so many places is also indicative of this battle; for, although meteors used to occasionally shoot across the sky, never before had the world witnessed such an awe-inspiring spectacle. The rain of these burning meteorites was so frightening that some people fainted upon seeing it. This clearly shows that the time has come for the destruction of major satans and as a result, the world shall soon see for itself the significance of these fireballs.

Now, before producing the eyewitness testimony of others about these burning meteorites, I quote below the report of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, as given in its issue dated 3 April 1907 concerning this fireball. It is as follows:

Several correspondents have written to tell us of the aërolite which was seen on Sunday afternoon about a quarter to five o’clock. It was of great brilliancy, and its fall from the sky was followed in Lahore by an immensely long double train of what looked like smoke. It was seen at Rawalpindi in a south-easterly direction from that station. There was bright sunshine at the time. Some of our correspondents inquire if there are any cases on record of a meteorite being visible under such conditions, and other point out that if the phenomenon had occurred after dark the sight must have been surpassing brilliancy. (Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, dated 3 April 1907)

Similarly the Army News of Ludhiana in its issue dated 6 April 1907, page 11, column 3, reports about this same meteor as follows:

The shooting meteor came down from the sky at about 3:00 PM on 31 March 1907 the details of which are as follows: At a distance of about half a mile to the south-west corner of the village Panwana, Tehsil Pasrur, a meteor was seen which immediately upon falling from the sky assumed the shape of some twenty-five yards long flame of fire and headed from the jungle towards the village. There is a Hindu crematorium about a quarter mile away from the village wherein is an acacia tree, over which, at a height of some ten yards, (the flame) hovered for about five minutes, then it turned white and became thick like a big bamboo stick. Five minutes later, this fireball burst into three parts, resulting in a loud crash encompassing the whole jungle and the village, as if a number of cannons had been fired simultaneously. And that fire disappeared in the same crematorium over the said tree. Later at about half past four in the evening a meteor fell down in a jungle some three quarters of mile away to the north. In shape, it was also like the first meteor but its sound upon breaking was like that of just a single cannon. All eyes were focused on it. I too was standing about a quarter of a mile away to the north, out of the village. Simultaneous with the noise, I saw a fire-like lightning advancing towards the village. I myself saw it approaching the pond near the village. Later, I was told that when it arrived in the village, it had turned into smoke and partly disappeared in the village and partly moved on ahead. Then evening came and the sun was about to set when a round ball of fire was seen approaching from the side of the village Randhawa (which is situated on north-westerly direction to Panwana) and it went on further ahead of the village. It was heard that this ball of fire was a meteor which originated from some six miles away or farther and shot across to an unknown place further ahead of us, we do not know how far. It is reported that part of it fell down in a fodder field in village Jodhala, Tehsil Pasrur, which is four miles away from Panwana. As a result, the fodder field was reduced to ashes, however this news is not too reliable. One can only wonder at the ways of divine providence.

Again the same newspaper, the Army News, in the same place reports that on 31 March 1907, in village Chak Shadi, Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan, District Jhelum, at about 12 PM, two fiery meteors, red in colour, about four feet long and two feet in diameter, fell at a distance of half a mile and disappeared immediately upon falling.

The list showing letters received, testifying to the fulfilment of the prophecy about the appearance of the amazing heavenly Sign which took place at the time of ‘Asr Prayer on 31 March 1907.