Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 558
HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION 558 Couplets of Sa'dullah The lone survivor was the son who had been born prior to the prophecy. He has attained old age but there is no mention at all of his marital intentions, let alone the possibility of any children. The supplicatory couplets written by him [Sa'dullah] entitled Qadiul-Hajat [i. e, 'The Provider of all Needs'] adequately portray his sense of deprivation; they are the following: جگر گوشه با دادی اے بے نیاز ولے دل من بنعم البدل شاد کن بلطف ذوالمنن و اولادم اے ز ازواج بود چند زانها گرفتی تو باز آزاد گن از غم غصہ ہر یکے قرة العین من پار بائے که رفتند پیش ز مهجوری شان دلم ریش ریش my Self-Sufficient Lord! You bestowed upon me the darlings of my heart, But some of them you snatched back. God my Lord! Grant me a better substitute, and help me, by Your grace, to eradicate worries and distress. O my Gracious Lord! Each one of my wives and children is the delight of my eyes. My heart is full of acute pain and grief, On account of the death of my dear ones! By just glancing over these painful poetic verses anyone can gauge how many regrets must have filled his heart over the death of his children and of being left issueless himself, and the regrets from which he could not save himself. And, as is clear from his book, for as many as sixteen years he continued to pray for him to be bestowed many offspring and for me to die and be destroyed. In the end, in the first week of January 1907, he died within a span of a few hours afflicted by pneumonic plague, deprived of the acceptance of all his prayers.