Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 468
468 HAQIQATUL-WAHI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Comments of Hakim Karam Dād continued from here. The verdict deciding between truth and falsehood delivered in the presence of all witnesses. A false claimant to divine revelation is soon removed from the world by Allah the Almighty. It is an immutable law of God. Mirzā, the signatory of the above declaration had, having denied the Promised Messiah, peace be upon him, prophesied his death and destruction on the basis of his vision. He per- ished due to the chastisement of plague in the same month of Ramadan when the declaration was written exactly one year later, that is, he died on 7 Ramadan 1322. Earlier his wife had died too and it was his own household that was destroyed. Therefore, our village folk should learn a lesson from this and should believe in the truth of our holy master. Written dated 7 Ramadan AH 1322. This humble writer—[Hakim Karam Dād], sent the above declaration for publication to the late Bābū Muhammad Afdal, Editor al-Badr at Dārul-Amān [Qadian]. The latter sent it back with the note that he does not accept such articles for publica- tion in his newspaper. This prophecy became known all around this place too, and people started saying, 'Let us see who wins! Will it be the Mirzā of Qadian or the Mirzā of Dulmial?' Indeed, our opponents even started praying after the congre- gational prayers for the success of their Faqīr Mirzā. One day it so happened that a Hindu sergeant was reading to Faqīr Mirzā the newspaper Sirājul-Akhbar which told that Hakim Fadl Din was so gravely ill that he had to be carried on a charpoy to the court at Gurdaspur. On hearing this news, the 'recipi- ent' of revelation, happily declared, 'Now the time has come for the destruction of the Mirzā of Qadian and its signs have started to appear. But the poor fellow did not know that his