The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 439
Repeated Challenges 439 power? Be sure, therefore, it is not me you are fighting, but you are fighting God. Can you not distinguish between fragrance and foul smell? Can you not observe the majesty of truth? It would have been much better for you if you had shed tears before God Almighty and had sought guidance from Him concerning me with a trembling heart, and had then followed a certainty and not pursued doubts and delusions. . Now get up and be ready for Mubahalah. You know that my claim is based on the authority of the Holy Qur'ān and Aḥādīth and on Divine revelations vouchsafed to me. . You rejected the authority of the Qur'an and the Aḥādīth and disregarded altogether the Word of God, as if it were no more than a broken reed. . This leaves the second basis of my claim, so I call upon you in the name of the Mighty and Jealous God—and no faithful one can reject a call in His name to come for a. Mubahalah for a Judgement on the basis of the revelation vouchsafed to me. . The procedure will be as follows: After the date and place of the Mubāhalah have been agreed upon, I will present myself with a paper on which all the revelations, which I have set out, will be written, and I shall supplicate:. Lord, if these revelations that I hold in my hand are my inventions and You know that I have made them myself, or if they are the result of the incitement of. Satan and are not Your Words, may You then cause me to die before the end of one year from this date, or afflict me with such torment as may be worse than death, and do not grant me deliverance until I die, so that my disgrace may be known and people may be delivered from the mischief of my design, as I do not