The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 346
346. Essence of Islam-III and boast of their learning and eloquence. There are others who style themselves as mystics of different orders like Chishti, Qādrī, Naqshbandī, Suharwardī etc. Arise and bring them to confront me! If I am false in my claim that both these kinds of blessing, those of Jesus as and those of Muḥammad sa are combined in me, and I am not the person in whom they were to be combined and who was to be Dhul-Burūzain [a manifestation of both] I will be defeated in this contest. Otherwise I shall emerge supreme. By the grace of God, I have been bestowed the capacity to exhibit signs of worldly blessings, like Jesus, and to exhibit Muḥammadi signs in the shape of setting forth verities, insights, subtle points, and mysteries of the. Divine Law. And I have been granted extraordinary eloquence to accomplish these matters. I am certain that, by the grace of God, and by virtue of His design, there is no one on earth today who combines both these capacities in him. It has already been foretold that the one in whom these two capacities are combined would appear in the latter days. One half of his person would reflect Messianic glory and the other half would display the glory of. Muḥammadsa. I am that person. Let him who so desires, look at me, and let him who wishes to test me, do so. . Blessed is he who does not hold back, and most unfortunate is he who chooses darkness while there is light. [Ayyam-uş-Şulḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 406-408]. Appeal to Give up Vilification and Abuse. Purely by way of advice, and for the sake of Allah, I tell the opposing clerics and their soul mates, that abuse and vilification is not the way of decency. If this be your disposition, then so be it. But if you consider me false in my claim, you also have the option to come together in your mosques and pray to God for my ruin, or you can do the