Arba'in — Page 161
Number Four 161 Without any doubt, they understood it, but then they slaugh- tered the truth intentionally! In short, this is the condition of their faith! After committing such injustice, they hurl thousands of abuses in their published announcements, forgetting that one day they have to die [and face God]! How joyfully they say that Mehr Ali Shah came to Lahore, and I did not contest him! What kind of cure can I provide for the hearts that God curses? My heart painfully awaits a verdict. A long time has passed. My wish has still not been fulfilled that someone from those people desires to reach a verdict based on truth, honesty, and good intent, but sadly these people do not enter the fray with sincerity of heart. God is ready to make a judg- ment, and like a she-camel lifts her tail to deliver a calf, this age itself is demanding a verdict. Would that someone from among them seek a judgment! Would that someone from among them be rightly guided! I invite them based on perfect discernment, but they reject me relying upon mere conjectures! Their fault-findings are also for the same reason that they may find some flaw. O ignorant people! This Movement has been established from the heavens. Do not fight with God! You cannot annihilate Him. God always succeeds. What is in your hands other than a few a ha d i th that the seventy-three sects have cut into small pieces and divvied up amongst themselves? Where is truth and convic- tion seen? You accuse each other of lying. Was it not necessary that the H akam —that is, the Arbiter— of God descend amongst you, selecting some and rejecting some from your stockpile of a ha d i th ? Well, this is exactly what has