Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 687
A SHINING SIGN—SIGN NUMBER 198 687 is Pharaoh, and I am Mūsā', that I would die in his lifetime, that I would die of the plague, that all my Jama'at would be destroyed, that the wrath of God would descend upon me, and that nothing would be left of me. By contrast, God bestowed perfect progress and full honour upon me, and granted me renown in all parts of the world, and caused this vain, ill-mannered, short-tempered, and loud-mouthed enemy to die of the plague in my own lifetime. Would you still call him Mūsā? What kind of Mūsā was he, that the one whom he used to designate as Pharaoh and whose death he said would take place in his own lifetime, turned out to be the very one in whose lifetime he himself died an ignominious death by the plague? It is strange indeed that the one he used to name Pharaoh had announced his revelation: إِنِّي أُحَافِظُ كُلَّ مَنْ فِي الدَّارِ Meaning that, God says: 'Surely, I shall save all those from the plague who dwell within the four walls of this house. ' As a result, by the grace of God, not even a dog has died within the four walls of my house from the plague despite the virulent attacks of plague rampant in these parts for the last eleven years. On the contrary, the one who was wont to pronounce himself Mūsā died of the plague. Not only this but all his revelations that he had published forecasting my death by plague and my discomfiture proved to be false and became the cause of his own humiliation. So where is his vaunted revelation -Such is the end of those who consider the prompt إِنِّي مُهِيْنٌ لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ إِهَانَتَكَ! ing of their ego to be revelations and do not assess the validity of their so-called 'revelations' by the criterion of the testimony of the works of God. Remember that, unless and until such extraordinary Signs of God pour down in support of revelations as far exceed the common experi- ence, considering one's revelations to be the word of God is tantamount to adopting the path to Hell and purchasing a disgraceful death. For, a revelation is no more than a statement in which Satan too may have a