Arba'in — Page 47
Number Two 47 you should pray in these words: ‘O our Lord! If You know that this man is a fabricator of lies and is not from You, and he is nei- ther the Promised Messiah nor the Mahdi, then You remove this evil from among the Muslims, and save Islam and the followers of Islam from his mischief as you saved Muslims from the mischief of Musailmah al-Kadhdh a b [the Great Liar] and Aswad ‘Ansi by removing them from this world. And if he is from You, and the fault lies in our own understanding and perception, then—O All-Powerful God!—confer upon us the realization so that we be spared destruction. And manifest such matters and Signs in his support that we may feel satisfied that he is from You. ’ When this entire supplication has taken place, then I and my Community will say out loud A m i n and then after that, I will pray and at that time I will have all these revelations in my hand that have just been written down, and the other revelations also that I am going to write down below. In other words, this printed treatise in which all the revela- tions are written will be in my hand. The contents of my prayer will be this: ‘O my Lord! The revelations that are in this treatise which I hold in my hand, according to which I consider myself to be the Promised Messiah and the Promised Mahdi, and declare that Hadrat ‘ I s a is dead, if these are not Your words and I am a liar, a fabricator, and a dajj a l in Your sight, who has created mis- chief among the Ummat-e-Mu h ammadiyah [the followers of the Muhammad s as ] and Your wrath is on me, then I most humbly sup- plicate at Your threshold that within one year from today, cut off my name from among the living, and completely disrupt all my work, and erase all trace of my being in the world. But if I am from You, and the revelations that I am presently holding in my hand