Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 537
EPILOGUE TO HAQIQATUL-WAHI 537 the stone slab (for printing) when Charāgh Din himself, by falling victim to the plague, delivered the verdict on the dispute between the two of us with his own death. In short, the text of the mubahalah had become a well-known incident. This is why his friends published it nonetheless as part of the book Ijaz-e-Muhammadi. When that text had been printed, we also purchased several copies of that book so that people would know that the text of the Mubāhalah that we had published as part of our book Haqiqatul-Wahī is exactly from this very Charāgh Dīn. Although all this was sufficient evidence for public satisfaction, I felt that if we could get the original mubāha- lah text which was written by Charāgh Dīn's own hand, and then take a photo of it, this evidence would have added lustre. Great effort was made for this objective and in the end, after the publication of the book, we were able to obtain not only that text, but also the entire manuscript of the book from the scribe of I'jāz-e-Muhammadi. After this, I tried to have a photo taken of this text in some way. To this end, through the efforts of brother Maulawi Muhammad 'Alī M. A. , letters were writ- ten to the publishing houses in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras where photos of written manuscripts are taken. Although very high rates were quoted for making the pho- tocopy-fifty rupees per page—we agreed to everything. This was the very reason why the publication of the book Haqiqatul- Wahi was delayed so much. In the end, with the grace of God Almighty, we succeeded in taking the image of that manuscript. Therefore, that image has been included in this epilogue. ¹ The original writing of Charagh Din which is the text of the 1. The photocopy of the handwritten mubāhalah challenge to Charāgh Dīn, res- ident of Jammu is given on pages 507-512. The translation is given on pages 474-479. [Publisher]