Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 536
536 HAQIQATUL-WAHI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION compassion of Allah the Exalted, their hearts were moved to publish that book which contains the essay of the mubāhalah and then they published that book in a matter of a few weeks and they named that book Ijāz-e-Muhammadi. The most gratifying part of this is that, despite their intense opposition, they could not remove the essay of the mubāhalah from the book Iʻjāz-e-Muḥammadi. It appears that Charāgh Dīn had, while he was still alive, publicly expressed his inten- tion of writing an essay by way of a mubāhalah so that the one who is a liar should perish. With great audacity and arrogance, he had labelled me a dajjal and had alleged in his book Mināratul-Masih ["The Minaret of the Messiah'] that I was none other than the promised Dajjal who was to come. He had further written that, during a dream, Hadrat ‘Īsāas [Jesus] had given a staff to him so that with this staff he could kill this Dajjal. Then, once he wrote the wording of the mubāhalah in his book Ijāz-e- Muhammadi, soon after its compilation, he contracted the plague. Although he was unable to publish his book within his lifetime, he had explicitly announced his intention to enter into the mubahalah and had shown the text of the mubahalah to a number of people. Moreover, he had submitted the article to the scribe for transcription. This is why his friends, despite their intense opposition, could not muster the courage to expunge the text of the mubahalah from the book. In actual fact, this was an act of Allah the Exalted that He prevented those people from realizing that the publication of the text concerning the mubā- halah would prove that Charāgh Dīn was a liar, because when Charāgh Din handed over the text of the mubāhalah to the scribe for transcription, both his sons for there were only two-contracted the plague and died that very same day. Furthermore, that text had not yet been transferred to