Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 708
708 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION fair-minded person answer me: If these revelations were not satanic then what were they? And if God has always saved all those whom He loves from the plague, then why was this hapless Ilāhī Bakhsh— بعد از خدا بزرگ توئی قصہ مختصر who claimed to have received the revelation ["The sum and substance of it is that after God, you are the greatest'], Say If you قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللهُ and also the revelation love Allah, then follow me, then will Allah love you"]-deprived of the benefit of this permanent practice of Allah? Why then did this heavenly chastisement, which is the usual lot of sinners and transgres- sors, descend upon a man who claims to be the greatest after God, and claims to be such a beloved of God that by following him one becomes the beloved of God? Has the time not yet come for fair-minded people to realize that for Bābū Ilāhī Bakhsh to leave this world with such a death of frus- tration a death which was caused by the plague and was against the intent of all his revelations-is a decisive fact? And if prejudiced per- sons are yet unable to understand this, they should remember that no one can frustrate God; He will demonstrate yet another Sign. Pitiable is the condition of those who do not benefit from the hundreds of Signs of God which continue to shine like the bright day, but persist in quoting one or two such prophecies as have either been fulfilled as far as their main point is concerned or have been half fulfilled. These are prophecies of warning and do not admit of any objection in light of the way of Allah. Is it fair to ignore some 10,000 prophecies and go on insisting upon a particular Sign that is beyond their comprehen- sion? This being the case, the faith of such people is as precarious today as it shall be tomorrow, for the manner in which God has treated me is not such as has no parallel in the case of any other Prophet. There is no objection that has been raised against me that cannot also be raised against another Prophet. Therefore, the condition of those who, at the time of raising an objection against me, fail to reflect that their