Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 552
552 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْاَ بْتَرُ [It is not you but your slanderer who shall be issueless. ] And the door to the birth of children for Sa'dullāh was closed after this revelation. And Allah the Exalted, smiting his face with his own curses, granted me three sons after this revelation, and caused tens of millions of people to hold me in great esteem. The financial victories I was bestowed, both in cash and in kind, and the variety of gifts that I received, were so many that if put together they would fill up a number of rooms. Sa'dullah desired that I should be abandoned and left alone with no one to keep me company. Hence, Allah the Exalted frustrated him in his design and caused many hundreds of thousands of people to become associated with me. He desired that people should not help me, but Allah the Exalted made him witness in his own lifetime how an entire world had turned to me to be of assistance to me. And Allah the Exalted helped me financially in such a manner as none else had been helped for hundreds of years. He had desired that I should remain deprived of every honour, but God caused thousands belonging to every echelon of society to submit to me with their heads bowed. He desired that I should die in his very lifetime and that my children too should die, but Allah the Exalted caused him to die in my lifetime and in the period from the day of this revelation He bestowed upon me three more sons. Thus he died a death of frustration and disgrace. This, indeed, was what I had prophesied and it was fulfilled by the grace of Allah the Exalted. And this prophecy in which I had written that he would die a death of frustration and disgrace during my lifetime, has been described in the following Arabic verses which form part of my book Anjām-e-Atham: