Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 436
436 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain as the title of the booklet. However, it so happened that I began to suffer from renal colic. I had intended to finish the booklet by 16 October 1903, for it was necessary to go to Gurdaspur to appear in a criminal case which one of my opponents had filed against me. At that time, I supplicated before God, '‘O my Allah! I want to write a booklet about the blessed martyr 'Abdul-Latif and renal colic has started. Grant me cure. ' I had once before suffered from renal colic for ten continuous days and had come to the verge of death on account of it. On this occa- sion, too, I feared the same. I told the members of my family that I would pray and they should say Āmīn. Then, in this state of severe pain, I prayed for the cure, and they said Amin. So I say under oath in the name of God Almighty, oath in whose name is greater than all evidence, that I had not yet completed my prayer when I was overtaken by drowsiness and I received the revelation: سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّنْ رَّبِّ رَّحِيْم [Peace is the word from the Merciful Lord. ] I immediately communicated this revelation to the members of my family and to all those present at the time. Allah, the All-Knowing is well aware that before six o'clock in the morning I recovered fully and I completed half the book the same day. [So Allah be praised for all this]. See the last part of Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain. 157. [ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVENTH] SIGN―The martyrdom of Ṣāḥibzādah Maulawi ‘Abdul-Laṭīf is also a Sign of my truth, for, ever since God created the world, it has never happened that a person should knowingly sacrifice his life for the sake of an impostor, charlatan, and liar; put his wife through the misery of becoming a widow; be willing to make his children orphans; and embrace death by stoning for himself. True, there are hundreds of people who are killed unjustly, but