Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 380
380 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION 130. [ONE HUNdred thirtieth] SIGN-In my book Anjām- e-Atham, I invited many opposing maulawis, by name, to a muba- halah [prayer duel], and wrote on page 66 of the book that should any one of them enter into a mubahalah with me, I would pray that some of them may become blind, some may become paralysed, some may become insane, some may die of snakebite, some may meet an untimely death, some may be disgraced, and some may suffer financial loss. Although all the opposing maulawis were not courageous enough to accept the challenge of a mubahalah, they continued to slander me behind my back, and persisted in their denial. Rashid Aḥmad of Gangoh, for instance, has not only invoked [The curse of Allah be upon the liars'], but has also called me ‘'Satan' in one of his posters. Ultimately, the result of this was that of all fifty-two oppos- ing maulawis, only twenty have survived thus far, and even they are ensnared by one calamity or another. The rest have all died. Maulawi Rashid Aḥmad became blind and later died of snakebite, as was in the prayer of the mubahalah. Maulawī Shāh Dīn died after becoming insane. Maulawi Ghulām Dastagīr became a victim of the mubahalah initiated by himself. As for those who are still alive, none of them has escaped the above named calamities, even though they have not yet entered into the mubahalah in the prescribed manner. 131. [ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIRST] SIGN-Readers would note in this book that I had, at one point, prophesied about Bishambar Dās, a brother of Sharampat Khatrī, that although he would not be acquitted outright in the criminal case in which he was implicated, the term of his imprisonment would be reduced by half. Later when Bishambar Dās was released after serving half the term of his imprisonment, as was intimated in the prophecy, his kin falsely announced that Bishambar Dās had been acquitted. It was night-time and I had gone to our main mosque for offering Prayer when Ali Muḥammad, a mullah, resident of Qadian, narrated it in the