Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 714
714 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION So may I ask: 'Had this episode been attributed to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and had he declared on the basis of revelation that a particular person was deemed to be wor- thy of receiving chastisement but had secretly stopped committing his impertinence, would these people have accepted these remarks of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, or would they have rejected his statement? And in case of rejecting his statement, would they, in the sight of Allah, have become deserving of punishment or not?' Thus, given that God Almighty had already affixed this pre- condition for Ātham and had informed me through His revelation that Ātham had ceased to persist in his mischief and insolence, the demand of piety was to completely abandon this discussion, employ goodly and positive thinking, and reflect in their hearts that this may well be the right thing. Furthermore, not only was I informed by revelation from God, but Ātham, on his part, had also shown the corroborative signs that I have just written. Therefore, every righteous person was under obliga- tion not to venture into this and to fear God. has already been As for the case of Ahmad Baig's son-in-law, pointed out a number of times that the prophecy consisted of two branches. The first branch had to do with the death of Ahmad Baig and the second branch had to do with the death of his son-in-law. Moreover, the prophecy was conditional. As a result, Ahmad Baig died within the prescribed time frame on account of his failure to fulfil the condi- tion, but his son-in-law and his other relatives fulfilled the [prescribed] before the actual incidence of the plague that the plague would break out in the world and that our opponents would continue to be decimated by it, and that our numbers would be bolstered up with its help. Hence, who could be more blind than the one who cites the death of a few Ahmadis by plague, yet remains oblivious to the many hundreds of thousands whom the plague has caused to enter into the fold of our Jama'at—and continues to cause daily entry into our Jama'at? Hence, blessed is this plague that is causing our num- bers to increase while causing the numbers of our enemies to decrease. Indeed no one belonging to our Jama'at has really been lost on account of the plague; for, each lost one has been replaced by 100 or even more. (Author)