Our Most Honoured Promised Messiah, on whom be peace, delivered a touching and awe-inspiring address on the Self-Sufficiency of God’s Being. He said: “Although God Almighty has promised: اِنَّهٗ اَوَی الْقَرْیَـۃَ (He will give shelter to the town of Qadian), He will not be ruled by anyone. His attribute of Self-Sufficiency demands at every moment that man should never sit in peace, contented. The will of Allah Almighty is that man should spend his time in fear and awe, so that a state of humility and servitude remains ever present.”
The Promised Messiah (as) also said: “Cholera is a sword of God Almighty, as it were. Pray profusely so that Allah the Exalted may preserve our village from this disease. In the eyes of our opponents, when people die in other localities, they are considered martyrs; but God-forbid, if the epidemic strikes here, they will say that we are subject to divine wrath.”1
1 Al-Hakam, vol. 10, no. 35, dated 10 October 1906, p. 9 (From Maktubat-e-Karimiyyah, no. 3)