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25 seven thousand true visions and revelations, and it is an ongoing process with spiritual wonders raining down upon me, night and day. Fortunate is he who surrenders himself to this Divine dispensation and avails himself of heavenly bounties, and there is none more unfortunate than he who remains oblivious to these blessings and makes it his habit to level baseless objections and express uninformed opin- ions. I warn such people, * for the sake of Allah, that they Let fair-minded people judge whether I have made any serious error in interpreting these prophecies. It is true that I spoke of some excel- lent inherent qualities of the deceased child on the basis of revelations, and I still do, but it is unanimously substantiated by all religions that children do possess diverse qualities regardless of whether they die in infancy or live to an advanced age. No sage or scholar can deny this and there is no room for any reasonable person to be misled on this account. As for the ignorant, they have always been misled, as, for instance, were the children of Israel on account of Moses’ prophecies. He had said that a great punishment would come upon the Pharaoh, but they saw no such thing happening, and it seemed that they were being punished instead, for they were now being forced to toil for the whole day while previously they had worked half the time. What manner of liberation was this [they asked]! The fact was that the hard labour was only meant as trial for them, and it was the Pharaoh who was destined to be defeated, but those ignorant and hasty people, seeing that their unrealistic expecta- tions were not quick to materialize, began criticizing Moses as and harbouring doubts about him. They said, "Moses and Aaron! Would that God treat you as you have treated us. " The ignorance and haste shown by Judas Iscariot also deserves atten- tion, for he, too, misunderstood the Messiah’s prophecies. He had been led to think that Jesus would become king and would bestow high offices upon his disciples, but when this did not happen and Contd…