The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 444
444 Essence of Islam-III my own making, my opponents would not have been de- feated in each and every case. They have been con- demned as false by the Holy Qur'an. The Ahādīth describing the spiritual ascension of the Holy Prophetsa and the Hadith which predicts that the Promised Messiah would be one of the Muslims, proves that they are liars. The results of the Mubahalahs proclaim their falsehood. Then by what authority do they so daringly oppose and reject me, who has been sent by God, and has continued to call them to the truth for nearly twenty-six years? Have they not experienced the warning conveyed in the verse: يُصِبْكُمْ بَعْضُ الَّذِي يَعِدُكُمْ 260 Where is Ghulam Dastgīr who supplicated for my destruc- tion in his book Faid-e-Rahmānī, and prayed for the death of whichever of us was false? Where is Maulavī Charāgh Din of Jammu who stood up for Mubāhalah against me and predicted my death on the basis of a revelation he was supposed to have received? Where is Faqīr Mirzā who had a large following and who predicted my death with great enthusiasm. He even announced that God had informed him from His throne that I was an impostor and would die during his own lifetime in the following month of Ramadan. But when Ramadan came, it was he himself who died of the plague. Where is Sa'd-ullah of Ludhiana who stood up for Mubāhalah against me and predicted my death? He died of the plague in my lifetime. Where is Maulavi Mohy-ud-Din of Lakhoke who called me the Pharaoh and predicted my death in his lifetime and pub- 260 'Some of that which he threatens you with will surely befall you. ' Al-Mu'min, 40:29 [Publisher]