Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 316
316 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION he showed me the place where both prophecies were recorded. Then at midnight or a little later, he passed away. [Surely, to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return]. I am certain that the diary must still be available in his library. 97. NINETY-SEVENth sign—This is a prophecy, namely: تُخْرَجُ الصُّدُوْرُ إِلَى الْقُبُوْرِ. [The leading ones will be driven to their graves. ] It was printed and published in the newspapers al-Hakam and al-Badr. Its understanding provided by God Almighty was that the chief maulawis of the Punjab, who are considered to have the authority to issue edicts and are the teachers and guides of the junior maulawīs, will head for their graves after this revelation. Following this, the doyen of all the clerics, Maulawi Nadhir Husain of Delhi bade farewell to this world. He was the first among those who issued the edict of kufr [disbelief] against me. He was Maulawi Muḥammad Husain Batālavi's teacher and, upon the latter's request for an edict, had written these sentences concerning me that such a per- son was misguided, misleading, and outside the pale of Islam and that such people should not be buried in Muslim graveyards. This maulawi had set the entire Punjab ablaze with these edicts [against me]. People were frightened to such an extent that they were loath to even shake hands with me lest even this much contact might make them disbe- lievers. Then Maulawi Ghulām Dastagir of Qasur was the renowned person who, with a view to proving my ‘disbelief”, had procured edicts to this effect from Holy Makkah. He, too, died after declaring his uni- lateral mubahalah. What a pity that the Makkans were not apprised of his death, or they would have withdrawn their edicts. Similarly, Mufti Maulawi Muḥammad, Maulawī ‘Abdullāh and Maulawi ‘Abdul- 'Aziz all belonging to Ludhiana—who by way of mubāhalah had The curse of Allah be upon the لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَى الْكَذِبِينَ repeatedly invoked