The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 441
Repeated Challenges 441 wishes to avoid the use of the expression 'disbeliever', he will be at liberty to employ only the term 'liar' and 'impostor', concerning which he is certain. . After the Mubāhalah, if I die within a year or am afflicted with some torment from which I am not expected to be delivered, the people will be secure from my mischief and I shall become accursed forever. I proclaim here and now, that in such case I should be considered a liar and accursed. I will not mind being called dajjal or the accursed or Satan, and will deserve always to be mentioned with a curse and will accept the Divine. Judgement without reservation. In this case, anyone who follows me or considers me to be good or truthful will be subject to God's chastisement. Thus my end would be vile as is the end of all disgraceful liars. . But, if God safeguards me for a year against death or physical calamity, and my opponents are afflicted with. Divine wrath and each of them becomes the subject of some misfortune, and my prayer against them is manifested in a shining manner, the world will recognize the truth and this daily conflict will come to an end. I repeat that up to now I have never prayed against anyone who professed to be a Muslim, and have endured everything with patience; but on that day I shall seek the Judgement of God and shall hold to His Holiness and Honour, so that by destroying the party that is in the wrong and is committed to falsehood, He may safeguard Islām against the mischief of the wicked. . I also agree that my prayer should be regarded as having been answered only if each one of those who come into the field for Mubahalah is afflicted, one way or another, within one year. If even a single one of them is spared-