Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 112
112 who witnesses the bright day in all its glory and still refuses to accept its brightness. One of my signs is the books that I have written in the Arabic language during the aforementioned period, and then Allah made them a miracle for me for clinching my argument. The first one of these books is I‘j a zul-Mas ih , then al-Hud a wat-Tab s iratu Li Man Yar a , and then I‘j a z-e-Ahmad i , which is a great miracle indeed with regard to which I had announced a prize-money of ten thou- sand rupees for any of the opponents who could produce a book like I‘j a z-e-Ahmad i within a period of twenty days. However, no one came out, as if they were speechless or were mere beasts. Along with the announcement of the prize, I had also invoked curse upon those who remain silent and unresponsive and seek to hide themselves behind various covers. By invoking the curse, I intended to urge them to show some life and respond to the book, but they hid themselves in their chambers. I wonder what Allah did to their hearts despite the fact that I offered them a prize and tried to motivate them. Among my signs one is the forewarning I received from the Omniscient and Wise God regarding an accursed man and his great calumny. God revealed to me that this person sought to dis- honour me, but that then he would become my prey. As many as three times He showed me visions about this person and showed me that he had prepared three accomplices to insult me and per- secute me. And, I saw in a vision that I was presented in the court like a detained person and I also saw that I was eventually released by the grace of the Lord of the Worlds, even though this release came about after some time. Also, I was given the glad tiding that this calamity would be