Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 606
606 HAQIQATUL-WAHI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION even aware of my name. This fact is not hidden from any fair-minded person that some twenty years ago I circulated 16,000 printed copies of a leaflet in the English language throughout Europe and America in which I announced my claim and laid out the reasons in support of it. And after this, a number of different announcements continued to be issued every now and then. Then again, for the last so many years, the magazine-Review of Religions—is regularly dispatched to Europe and America. Also, the news of my claim has been published in European newspapers many times. The news of my prayer against Dowie¹ was also documented in European [and American] newspapers. Therefore, despite this ongoing dissemination [of the news of my claim] over the last twenty years or more, who can accept that those people [i. e. Europeans and Americans] are not aware even of my name? The fact is that some of them have even entered into my Movement. Apart from all this, everyone knows that Prophet Nūh'sas [Noah's] deluge killed even those who had not yet heard his name. Hence, the essential truth of the matter is what Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Quran: وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولًا Allah the Exalted, does not send down punishment upon the world unless and until He first sends a Messenger. This alone is the practice of Allah. It is quite clear that [these days] no divine Messenger has appeared in Europe and America. Thus, the chastisement that befell them came upon them only after my claim [to be Warner of this age]. 1. This [Dr. John Alexander Dowie] is the name of an American impos- tor who claimed to be Ilyas [Elijah] and a Prophet who, these days-apart from suffering financial losses is near death while suffering from paralysis. (Author) 2. Sūrah Bani Isrā'īl, 17:16 [Publisher]