Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 267
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 22 267 The anxiety surfaced in my heart that perhaps we would face days of deprivation and hardship. All this concern flashed across my mind in the fraction of a second, quite like lightning. At that very moment, I felt drowsy and received the second revelation: أَلَيْسَ اللهُ بِكَافٍ عَبْدَهُ. Meaning that, is not God sufficient for His servant? My heart was strengthened by this revelation from Allah as a gravely painful wound is instantly healed with a balm. The fact is that it has been verified repeatedly that divine revelation has an intrinsic quality to grant comfort. At the root of this quality lies the certainty which one acquires regarding God's revelation. Alas! What kind of revelations do these people have that, despite their claim of being the recipients of revelation, they also confess that their revelations are only conjectural affairs and they do not know whether they are satanic or divine? The harm of such revelations is greater than their benefit. But I swear by God that I believe in these revelations of mine just as I do in the Holy Quran and other Scriptures. Just as I believe with certainty and conviction that the Holy Quran is the Word of God, so do I believe the Word that descends upon me to be the Word of God, for I behold the refulgence and light of God with it and I find Signs of God's prov- idence accompanying it. In short, I immediately understood that God would not let me be wasted when I received the revelation: أَلَيْسَ اللهُ بِكَافٍ عَبْدَهُ. [Is not God sufficient for His servant?] After this, I wrote down the revelation and handed it to Malawāmal who is a Hindu, a khatri by caste, a resident of Qadian, and is still alive. I related the entire incident to him and despatched him to Amritsar so that, through the good offices of Ḥakīm Maulawi Muḥammad Sharif