Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 678
678 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION the wish that this staff would kill the man who had claimed to be the Promised Messiah; and when he would recall that he had prophesied in his book 'Aşa-e-Mūsā about the person who had claimed to be the Promised Messiah that he would die of plague in his lifetime; and when he would remember that, in this same book, he prophesied that he would not die until he would have destroyed this enemy. Everyone can very well imagine the overwhelming pain, frustration, and chagrin that must have enveloped him when the plague took hold of him. Can anyone possibly believe that—despite such frustration and the realization that all his revelations had turned out to be false-he still believed that he was Mūsā, even after falling victim to the plague? No, certainly not! On the contrary, the plague must have demolished all his own thoughts about himself. He must have been reminded of his wrongs. As a matter of fact, long before this crisis, God had revealed to me that he would cease to hold fast to his false beliefs and that in the end, he would renounce them. So there is no doubt that when he was suddenly faced with the plague and an untimely death, which he understood with full certainty was as untimely as it was against his own claim, without doubt this scene must have convinced him that all his revelations were satanic. In this state, he must have realized with irremediable regret that he had been in the wrong and that all that he had thought was not from God Almighty. Later on, I shall go on to elaborate that for him to contemplate along these lines was [simply] unavoidable because with this spectacle of imminent death, his revelations were proven false so unexpectedly and suddenly as if a wall suddenly collapses to the ground. It was far from the realm of possibility that he would have thought that he would ever escape death by the plague, for on 7 April 1907, the day he died, and even before, such a raging and deadly plague was rampant in Lahore that on certain days as many as 200 persons died of it. One of his relatives had died the day before his death, by attending the burial of whom he had contracted the plague. Hence, in the midst of this deadly epidemic who can say that he would survive? Indeed,