Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 547
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 547 service. We also have the exclusive honour of offering drinking water to the pilgrims. This man on the contrary amounts to nothing. ' Upon hearing all these things, the unfortunate Ibnul-Ashraf replied, 'Of course you are better than this fellow who claims to be a Prophet. ' It was then that God Almighty revealed about him and about the entire group of Quraish who used to say [abtar], and said: إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْابْتَرُ [abtar] [abtar] Meaning that, Ibnul-Ashraf who said the Holy Prophets was and the disbelievers among the Quraish who also called him are in fact [abtar]; that is to say, their lineal succession would be cut off and every one of them would die deprived of any good and devoid of all blessings. Now, no one can prove that all the Quraish who called the Holy Prophets [abtar] lost all their sons in their own lifetime or that they did not have any children. Were it so, they would never have desig- nated him the Holy Prophets [abtar]. No intelligent person [abtar] himself a person should can ever accept that despite being denounce another as [abtar]. Therefore, one has to acknowledge that the Quraish did indeed have offspring. The second possibility that all their offspring died in their own lifetime is simply unthinka- ble. Reason can never accept such a possibility because there were not just one or two evil-minded and unholy people who used to say this about the Holy Prophet; such people ran into hundreds, and their offspring numbered into the thousands, and had they all died in their parents' lifetime, surely it would have raised great hue and cry in the land because such miraculous deaths of thousands of children and the deaths of their fathers who later died in an issueless condition was not the kind of miracle that could have remained a secret. Furthermore, it 1. Surely, it is your enemy who is without issue (Surah al-Kauthar, 108:4). [Publisher]