Arba'in — Page 181
ARBAIN 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 Maulawi 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 Jama'at to have murdered Lekh Rām, 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 Jamāʻat killed Maulawi 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