The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 65
'Abdullah Atham 65 impertinent and insolent vilification that makes one deserve punishment. Thus when Ātham was apprised of this Prophecy in this gathering of more than seventy people, he blanched visibly, his face turned pale, and his hands started to tremble. He immediately took his tongue out of his mouth, touched his ears with both hands, and began to shake his head and hands just like frightened culprit who vehemently denies any wrongdoing, repents and shows great humility. . With a quivering tongue, he kept saying, I repent! I repent! I am not guilty of any disrespect or blasphemy; and I have never ever called the Holy. Propheta Dajjal. All the while he was trembling, and this spectacle was not only beheld by Muslims but his humble attitude was also witnessed by a large number of Christians. His denial seemed to signify that his statement in his book Andrūna-e-Bible was not meant as an insult. In any case, he ended up retracting the word Dajjal before this gathering of about seventy people, and it was this one word that had occasioned the prophecy. He escaped death within a period of fifteen months, because he had recanted that blasphemous word on which the prophecy depended and. God would surely never forget the condition that He. Himself had attached. Although this should have been enough for Atham to avail himself of the condition of repentance, he not only retracted the word Dajjal but, from the very day that he heard the prophecy, he stopped attacking Islam altogether. The fear this. Prophecy instilled in his heart continued to increase until he became a nervous wreck. All his peace and