Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 103
Details of the Signs 103 from among the elite or the ordinary people knew me. And, I lived in the same state of solitude until my Lord manifested Himself to me and gave me the glad tiding of acceptance and told me: َ إْل َ َ مُبَدِّل َ لِکَلِمَاتِہ ِ و إْل أَرُد ُّ إِلَیْك َ کَثِیْرًا مِن َ الْوَرَی، بَعْد َ مَا کَفَّرُوْك َ وَصَارُوْا مِن َ الْعِد َا، رَاد َّ لِمَا قَضَی [After people denounce you and become your enemies, I will cause multitudes to turn to you. No one can change His words and no one can reject His decree. ] Thus, I remained alone for a period of time that Allah, in His wis- dom, had ordained for me, and the opponents remained domi- nant. They published fatwas of heresy against me in market places and streets. And then I was inspired to publicly declare that the time of God’s help had come and that the time for the flowers to bloom and for the snow on the summits of the mountains to melt was close at hand. So the snow in high places began to melt. I, therefore, proclaimed that within three years a great sign of Allah would appear and I would be helped by the Lord of the Worlds in an extraordinary manner, and that if I was not helped and such a sign did not appear, then I should not be considered as one sent by God. Hence, when we came out of the month of Ramadan and the period ordained by our Gracious God came to an end, I looked back at that period of time and found that there was a chain of divine signs like pearls and precious gems set in a coral. So, I rendered thanks to our Lord for this bounty. But how can one adequately thank Him and whence can one acquire such power of expression. Blessed is the morn that brought forth the momentous victory and blissful is the day that humiliated