Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 728
728 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION گر امیدے دہم مدار عجب بر مقام فلک شده یا رب انشاء الله تعالیٰ ་་ بعد Your pain-filled supplications have reached heaven, Then be not surprised if I should give you hopeful news. After eleven, if God Almighty so wills. In any case, during this period, a Sign will appear for my exon- eration that will cause great humiliation to you. Do not ridicule the Word of God. Mountains move, rivers can dry up, seasons change, but the Word of God does not change, until it is com- pletely fulfilled. Similarly, the following revelation about Bābū Ilāhi Bakhsh is recorded on page 19 of my book, Arba'in, Number 4: يُريدُونَ أَنْ يَرَوْا طَمَثَكَ وَاللهُ يُريدُ أَنْ يُريَكَ إِنْعَامَةَ الْإِنْعَامَاتُ الْمُتَوَاتِرَةُ. أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ اَوْلَادِي. وَاللهُ وَلِيُّكَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقُلْنَا يَا نَارُ كُونِي بَرْدًا. Meaning that, Bābū Ilāhī Bakhsh wishes to see your menstruation or come to know of some other filth or defilement, but God, on the other hand, will shower His bounties upon you, which shall be perpetual. You do not have menstruation, but you do have a child- -a child who is at the status of the children of God. In other words, menstruation is something impure, but a child's body grows out of it. Similarly, when man surrenders to God then all the filth and defilement, which is part and parcel of human nature, is transformed into a spiritual body. This menstruation becomes the cause of human progress. This is the basis for the saying of the mystics: 'Had there been no sin, human beings could have made no spiritual progress. ' The same was the cause of Adam's progress. This is why every Prophet, keeping in view the hidden shortcomings, kept invoking