Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 454
454 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION manifests His Sign of authority in both respects. Therefore, since ‘Abdur-Raḥmān Muḥy-ud-Din issued a public circular to disgrace me before all the Muslims in the Punjab and asserted that I was an impos- tor, a liar, an infidel, a non-believer, a Pharaoh; and not only this, he also appended the revelation that God would ruin and kill me, and my children, too, would die, and none of them would survive. On account of his transgression, he became worthy of suffering disgrace in accord- ance with the divine revelation: إِنِّي مُهِيْنٌ مَّنْ أَرَادَ إِهَانَتَكَ [I shall humiliate him who designs to humiliate you. ] So what could be a greater disgrace than his dying in my very lifetime? If, in accordance with his revelation, I was the 'Pharaoh', it would be expected that I should die in his lifetime; not otherwise. Moreover, his revelation had this stipulation that I would remain issueless. God was pleased to grant me three more sons after his death. This, too, bode his humiliation because it transpired contrary to his revelation. I have written that whenever anyone intends to humiliate me, God Almighty sometimes shows my Sign in some other form too. This is illustrated by the incident that, when Ātham died after the stipulated period, ignorant people raised a hue and cry that he did not die within the appointed time-despite the fact that he had fulfilled the condition laid down in the revelation because he had retracted in the presence of some sixty to seventy witnesses from calling the Holy Prophetsa the Dajjal [Antichrist]. Still those whose nature was not pure did not refrain from raising objections. Thereupon God Almighty showed the Sign of the assassination of Lekh Rām for my help and support. Similarly, when my first son passed away, ignorant maulawis and their associates, as well as Christians and Hindus, expressed much jubilation. They were repeatedly reminded that the announcement of 20 February 1886 contained this prophecy that some sons [of mine] would also die. It was, therefore, necessary that some son should have