Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 603
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 603 These are the couplets from which I have deleted many obscene ones because they were extremely filthy and indecent. However, just as the author of these verses had prayed to God to do justice and cleanse the world of falsehood, God has indeed delivered an early judgment. Just a few days after composing these verses, this man—namely, ‘Abdul- Qadir-died of the plague. Through a disciple of his, I was able to get hold of the signed copy of these couplets. He was not the sole victim of the plague. Some other relative of his, including his son-in-law, also died of plague and consistent with his own couplet, the world was swept clean of falsehood. What a pity that these people are themselves guilty of lying yet bra- zenly slander others, and, under the Shariah of the Holy Prophetsa, are liable for punishment, but they do not care at all. Such are the pres- ent-day divines and scholars. Their hearts are tainted with such brazen and shameless gall that if one of them dies after invoking divine justice, the other—paying no heed to it—takes on the role of his successor and resumes the task of being insolent and foul-mouthed. Rather, he tries to outdo the former. As a result, scores of them have died in consequence of such muba- halahs. Were I to describe all cases of this kind, it would take several ajza" of this book. So many of my followers have written to me to inform me of persons who unilaterally invoked a mubahalah [against me] and died soon thereafter; or a particular person entered into a mubahalah contest with some member of the Jama'at and died on the morning of the next day. Others personally visited me and described such wondrous Signs. For instance, only yesterday, 28 February 1907, a number of guests also described some episodes concerning a mubāha- lah but since the size of this book has already become rather large and since their testimonies are oral, I did not think it necessary to incorpo- rate them herein. God alone knows why not a single one of them cares to think of the 1. A juzw comprises sixteen pages. [Publisher]