Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 410
410 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION کفن میں لپیٹا گیا. 1. Was wrapped up in a shroud. ۴۷ برس کی عمر إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُوْنَ. 2. Forty seven years of age. Surely to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return. إِنَّ الْمَنَايَا لَا تَطِيْشُ سِهَامُهَا. 3. The arrows of death do not miss. When supplication was made even after this, I received this revelation: يأَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ. 4. Meaning that, O people! You should worship the God who created you; that is, deem Him alone as the Doer of all your tasks and trust Him. تُؤْثِرُوْنَ الْحَيَوةَ الدُّنْيَا 5. Do you adopt the worldly life? The point here was that considering a person to be so indispensa- ble that his death will cause irreparable loss is tantamount to shirk [associating partners with God] and to be so desperate for his life is a kind of worship. After this, I kept quiet and realized that his death was inevitable. So, he died on Wednesday at Așr time, on 11 October 1905. But God did not forget the anguish which rocked my heart during my prayers for him and was pleased to replace one loss with another suc- cess. For this Sign, He selected Seth ‘Abdur-Raḥmān. Although He took 'Abdul-Karim away from us, He returned 'Abdur-Raḥmān back to us. He was afflicted with the same disease; he recovered through the prayers for all this]. o Allah be praised فَالْحَمْدُ لِلهِ عَلى ذلِكَ,of this very servant It is my experience of hundreds of times that God is so Benevolent