Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 219
POSTSCRIPT QUESTION (9) 219 day but night? In the same way, can we excuse those who deliberately indulge in spurious reasoning and are unable to refute the arguments of Islam? Islam is, indeed, a living faith. Why will a person who can distinguish between the living and the dead forsake Islam and accept a dead religion?* In this age, too, God Almighty manifests great Signs in support of Islam, and I say this from my own experience. If all the nations of the world were to unite against me and a comparison be made as to whom God reveals the unseen, whose prayers He accepts, whom does He help, and for whom does He manifest great Signs, I call God to witness that I would be victorious. Is there anyone who will step forward against me for such a trial?!! God has bestowed thousands of Signs upon me just to let the opponents know that Islam is indeed the true faith. I do not seek any honour for myself but I seek honour for the one for whom I have been sent. Some foolish people say that such and such prophecy [of mine] has not been fulfilled and, on account of their ignorance, cite one or two prophecies ‘that were not fulfilleď just as the mischievous people had done in the times of earlier Prophets, but they merely desire to spit at the sun and they deceive people by enhancing their accounts with lies and fabrication. They know nothing of the ways of God Almighty. They have no knowledge of the Scriptures; or, someone has the knowledge, but says so out of sheer mischief. According to them, Prophet Yūnus [Jonah] would be deemed an impostor because his definitive prophecy, which had no condition attached to it, was not fulfilled. But the two prophe- cies of mine which they quote again and again—namely, the ones about Ātham and the son-in-law of Ahmad Baig—have been fulfilled. Since they had conditions attached to them, there were delays in accordance 1. The person who makes a human being into 'God' without any evidence or rejects God as the Creator without any reason, can he not understand the perfectly clear arguments in favour of the truth of Islam? (Author)