Arba'in — Page 169
ARBAIN NUMBER FOUR 169 The persons who received this ilham are more than four in number. So, these are their revelations of rejec- tion. And testifying to my truth are those Divine dia- logues and conversations, some of which have been included in this book as an example. In addition, even before the time of my having attained maturity, some saints had made prophecies about me, giving my name and the name of my village, Yaqub, to testify on oath in front of my representative or me. If Hafiz Şahib bids farewell to [i. e. abandons] faith and refuses to testify, then he should look at the proof that we will submit in the meeting and should then himself decide fairly. All other revelations of Munshi Şahib shall be decided based upon this. When his very first revelation affronts his spiritual guide and master and calls him a donkey-rather, the big- gest donkey because he was the first to accept my truthfulness-then you can easily understand the merits of his other revelations. Surely, he can respond in these words: 'Just as my revelation has disgraced my spiritual guide by attacking him, so too has my honour not remained safe from it. This is so because the revelation that he wrote on page 355 of his book Asā'-e-Mūsā contains this revelation : اني مهين لمن اراد اهانتك . According to the rules of grammar, the presence of the conjunctive lām ]ل[ here gives the rival party the right to benefit. The meaning will thus be 'I shall disgrace you and bring disrepute on you in order to support and assist your opponent. If you say that it is the scribe's mistake, and in fact lām is not present then the reply is that this same revelation ap- pears at several places in this book with the lam again and again. It is written at the beginning and the end of the book, so it cannot be that a mistake of the scribe has occurred at every place. Thus, these are bizarre revelations; at times, they assault Maulawi Abdullah, and at other times they promise humiliation for the recipient of the revelations himself! Author