Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 706
706 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION on committing sin. The Elect of God are never made to partake of it. Thus, he who considered himself to be such a beloved of God and in support of this claim quotes his own revelation in his book 'Aşa-e- Tell them] قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللهُ Musa which is as follows if you want Allah to love you obey me then will Allah love you'], why would such a 'beloved of God' become the victim of the plague? God says about the Jews: 19 1988 لِمَ يُعَد بكُم بِذُنُوبِكُمْ Of course, believers who are not sinless and are not part of the high- est class and are not free from sins and frailties may suffer from the plague for the sake of being cleansed and purified, but he who comes from God like unto Mūsā can never suffer from the plague. A perfect believer falls under the verse: أولَيكَ عَنْهَا مُبْعَدُونَ And if you believe Munshi Ilāhī Bakhsh to be among the ḍāllin [those who have gone astray] then know that this title fits him most aptly because first he abandoned the truth deliberately and then he became so foul-mouthed, impertinent, and inflammatory that he left no room for ever listening to reason. If anyone happened to mention my name in his presence, his first reaction was to hurl abuse at me ten or twenty times followed by a deliberate rejection of truth. But God Almighty knows what is in each heart. The fact of the matter, therefore, is that the way God has dealt with him is an object lesson for the wise. Only my heart knows the extreme pain he had caused me: 1. Why then does He punish you for your sins? (Surah al-Ma'idah, 5:19) [Publisher] 2. These will be removed far from it (Sūrah al-Anbiyā, 21:102). [Publisher]