Arba'in — Page 181
Number Four 181 The person who prays for evil to befall me will have that prayer recoil upon him. The person who recites a curse upon me, that curse falls upon his own heart but he is unaware of it. And the person who declares entering into a duel with me and then makes these supplications that the one among us who is false may die first, the result of this will indeed be the one that Maulaw i Ghulam Dastagir Kasuri witnessed, for he had announced pub- licly that, ‘If Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is a liar—and he most cer- tainly is a liar—he shall die before me; and if I am a liar, then I shall die first. ’ And indeed, he made this supplication also, and after a few days he himself died! If that book had not been printed and made public, who would have believed in this occur- rence? But now he has testified to my truthfulness through his death. Thus, every person who shall enter into such a duel, and pray in this same manner, will definitely—like Ghulam Dastagir— become a witness to my truthfulness. It is really worth contem- plating that while some mischievous, unjust people declared my Jam a‘ at to have murdered Lekh Ram, whereas in fact it was a great Sign that was manifested, and it was one of my prophecies that had come to fulfilment—but pray tell who from among my Jam a‘ at killed Maulaw i Ghulam Dastagir? Is it not true that he himself—without any request from me—made such a prayer and then departed from this world? No one can die on earth until his death is decreed in the heav- ens. In my soul is present that very same truth which was given to Abraham, peace be on him. I have an Abrahamic relationship with God. No one knows my secret except my God alone. My