Effects of the Plague were exponentially higher in Punjab

Introduction

One of the key points of the plague prophecy made by the Promised Messiah (AS) was that Punjab will specifically suffer more than the other parts of the world.

Today, Sunday, February 6, 1898, I saw in a dream that God’s angels were planting black trees in different parts of the Punjab. Those trees were very ugly, black in colour, terrifying and of small size. I asked some of those who were planting them: ‘What kind of trees are these?’ They answered: ‘These are trees of the plague which is about to spread in the country.’ It remained unclear to me whether it was said that the plague would spread during the coming winter or the winter after, but it was a terrible sign which I saw.”

[Tadhkirah, pg 407-408]

In this article, we will give proof of the high mortality rate in Punjab compared to the rest of India.

Mortality in Punjab

This quote is taken from the Review of Religions magazine, which quotes the statistics from its time. The key point to note is that 40% of the total deaths in India by March 1907 are just in Punjab.

Last year it was generally thought that the plague was about to leave the country. But it has now set in with an increased vehemence and all hopes of its abatement are for the present over. In the month of January there were between sixty-four and sixty-five thousand deaths reported from plague in the whole of India. But within the four weeks from 2nd February to 2nd March, the number of deaths from plague has increased to 101,068. The principal mortality is in the Punjab which shows 39,517 deaths in the month of February or nearly two-fifths of the entire plague mortality of India.

[Review of Religion, March 1907]

Plague Mortality in the Punjab

This is another reference but from May of the same year (2 months after the above). It mentions that ~66% of the total deaths in India due to the plague are happening in Punjab.

Plague mortality in Punjab is beating all records. Within eight weeks, from the 2nd March to 27th April, there have been more than a quarter of a million deaths from the pestilence. The plague mortality of the province has risen from 14,854 in the first week of March to 54,204 in the last week of April, and more than two-thirds of the total number of plague deaths in India are now contributed by the land of the five rivers…

Thus while the total plague mortality of India for the eight weeks ending with the 27th April is 489,860 or nearly milf a million, the Punjab with less than an eleventh of the total population of the country is responsible for 260,946 or more than half the plague deaths. These figures are indeed apalling but the destruction which is being wrought in particular towns and villages is quite indescribable. Many of the villages in which the plague has made its appearance have lost more than a fifth of their population, while many have Iost one-third or even one-half, and instances are not wanting in which not more than two or three souls have been left in a village. The scene of devastation which the Punjab presents today is one of the most apalling scenes that history can present.

[Review of Religion, May 1907]

The same article continues to quote the actual words of the prophecy and mentions how the people laughed and mocked the Promised Messiah (AS) for publishing the revelation. 9 years down the line and it is a completely different picture. Village after village has been left in ruins. Some even have only a few souls alive in them.

Conclusion

Thus, this prophecy cannot be a product of a human mind as it was specific enough that no one could have predicted it almost a decade ago. The only logical conclusion is to accept it as knowledge from the Knower of the Unseen.