Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 632
632 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION O ignorant people! My claim to Prophethood does not mean that God forbid-I claim to be a Prophet as against the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, or that I claim to have brought a new shariah. My Prophethood means the frequent experience of divine converse and address that has been granted to me on account of my obedience to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. You people also admit the possibil- ity of divine converse, so our difference is only over the interpretation of terms. What you regard as the divine converse, I, in obedience to God's commandment, denote its occurrence with great frequency as Prophethood. ['Everyone is entitled to define his terms']. I swear by God, in whose hands my life is, that it is He indeed who has sent me, and He indeed has named me a Prophet, and He indeed has called me the Promised Messiah, and He has manifested great Signs in my support, the number of which extends to 300,000, some of which have been incorporated by way of illustration in this book. If His miraculous works and manifest Signs which number into the thousands had not openly testified to my truth, I would never have disclosed to anyone the honour of my divine converse; nor could I have declared with certainty that it was indeed the revelation of God. But for His part, God manifested such Works in support of His revealed Word that they served as a clear and bright mirror for beholding His countenance.