Arba'in — Page 156
156 Meaning, We have granted you a great victory as a magnificent Sign from Us, so that all the sins attributed to you [by your ene- mies] may be covered by the shining adornment of this manifest victory, and so that I may prove the critics wrong. In short, it has been the practice of Allah since the very begin- ning when the dispensations of the Prophets, peace be upon them all, started, that He gives only one response to thousands of false allegations; that is, by showing Signs in their support, He proves that they [the Prophets] are His near and dear ones. Thus, just as darkness is instantly dispelled by the rising sun and the spread- ing light, in the same manner, all false allegations are shattered to pieces. So, I see that God is giving the same response on my behalf. If I was, in fact, a fabricator of lies against God, immoral, a usurper and a liar, then why would my opponents be so afraid to compete with me? The matter was easy to resolve. 1 ٭ They should have left the decision between them and me to be made by God through a heavenly Sign and should have accepted God’s act as a H akam [Arbiter]. However, it kills them even to listen to a contest of this type. Is it not strong evidence that their hearts are distorted who believe Mehr Ali Shah Golarhvi to be truthful and think that he returned from Lahore as a victor? They neither hold any fear of God, nor are they afraid of the Day of Judgment. Their hearts are filled with audacity, mischief, and disrespect, as if they will never 1. ٭ I reached this point when I received the book of Munsh i Il a h i Bakhsh, the Accountant, entitled: ‘As a ’-e-M u s a , in which he has made personal attacks—based entirely on malice—against me and has also attacked some of my accurate and holy prophecies without due consideration. Soon after I had laid the book aside, I received the revelation concern- ing Munsh i Il a h i Bakhsh: