Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 453
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 160 453 Thereupon, he was seized by the promise of God Almighty: إِنِّي مُهِيْنٌ مَّنْ أَرَادَ إِهَانَتَكَ [I shall humiliate him who designs to humiliate you. ] Therefore, it is a great Sign for me that the man who presented a revela- tion for my destruction, perished and died himself. As ‘Abdur-Raḥmān Muḥy-ud-Din belonged to a family of scholars and held sway over thousands-on top of which he also claimed to be a lineal descendant of saints and the recipient of revelation—and he was quite renowned and popular in those regions, God did not desire that people should suffer ruin on account of his words. This is the secret why God, after his revelation in accordance with which he awaited my death and destruc- tion, caused him to die instead, and showered hundreds of blessings upon me; and even cut off the line of his descendants after the reve- lation—yet blessed me with three more sons after his revelation. What happened to his revelation Had his revela- tion been fulfilled and had he survived and I died instead, and had he been blessed with children and I been left issueless, who can doubt that hundreds of thousands would have celebrated him as a miracle worker? Already his was a family of ancestral saints; therefore, by such a miracle, Lakhukay Wala [resident of village of hundreds of thousands] would have become true to its name and hundreds of thousands [of miracle seekers] would have swarmed to Lakhukay Wala. That is why God, in a single instant, made him—as the Punjabi proverb goes—From hundreds of thousands to zero. Even the performance of Hajj [the Pilgrimage] did not benefit him and he died in transit from Makkah to Madinah, for the Khanah Ka'bah cannot save the unjust. This is the practice of God Almighty in relation to me that He eventually seizes the one who overzealously pursues his intention to humiliate me or, manifests a Sign for me in some other way in oppo- sition to him. He invariably does at least one of these two things, or