Arba'in — Page 78
78 Himself as Ibr a h i m [Abraham] and other immaculate Prophets were exalted. In the same manner, God gave me the promise against the schemes of these people that He would grant me a life of eighty years, or two or three years less or more than this. In this way, as the Jews wanted to prove that Jesus was not exalted to God because he died on the cross, similarly these people will not be able to claim that I am a great liar based on the brevity of my life. Also, God has given me the promise that He will save me from all terrible diseases, like blindness, so that they may not be able to deduce anything detrimental against me. 1 God also informed me that some of them will continue to pray for evil to befall thee, but that God would revert these evil prayers of theirs back upon their own selves. And the fact is that people tried their level best in plotting, thinking that somehow I could be brought under the application of ْوَل َلَّوَقَت. 2 Some maulaw i s issued fatwas to have me murdered. Some maulaw i s gave evidence against me to make false cases of mur- der against me. Some maulaw i s made false prophecies about my death. Some of them continued to rub their noses into the ground entreating in mosques, praying for my death. Some of them, such as Maulaw i Ghulam Dastagir Kasuri wrote in his 1. God’s revelation about the eyes is this: ِ ْن ي َ ُْخْرَی اِل ا ى ٰ ْن ِ و َ عَل ي ثَلٰث ٍ الْعَ ى تَنْزِل ُ الرَّحْمَۃ ُ عَلٰ ‘God’s mercy will descend upon three of your organs: the eyes, and two other organs. ’ Author 2. And if he had falsely attributed even a trivial statement to Us ( S u rah al- Ha qqah, 69:45). [Publisher]