Claims of the Promised Messiah (as) — Page 5
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 5 ] Hadrat Mu h ayyudd i n Ibn-e-‘Arab i , in addition to claiming that he received revelation, also claimed that he experienced spiritual exaltation ( mi‘r a j ) during which the following verse [ s u rah al-Baqarah , 2:137] was revealed to him: Say ye: ‘We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob and his children and what was given to Moses, Jesus, and what was given to all other Prophets from their Lord. We make no difference between any of them, and to Him we submit ourselves’. ( al-Fut u h a t al-Makkiyyah , vol. 3, p. 350) He then states: Thus, God has bestowed upon me all the signs men- tioned in this verse, has elevated my spiritual station, and has provided me with the key to all forms of knowledge. From this I understand that I am a blended compound of all the Prophets mentioned in the verse. ( Ibid. )