Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 759
ANOTHER FRESH SIGN OF VERDICT THROUGH MUBĀHALAH 207. SIGN NUMBER TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN-Reproduced below is the mubahalah which Munshi Mahtāb 'Alī, a member of our Jama'at, had on 12 June 1906 with Faiḍullāh Khān, son of Zafar-ud- Dīn Aḥmad, a former professor of Oriental College, Lahore. The result of this was that Faiḍullāh Khān, in accordance with his own wish, suf- fered from an attack of the plague and not only died himself on 13 April 1907 CE, Besakh 1, 1963—Vikram Calendar-but also became the cause of death for some of his relatives. In addition, it would be relevant to mention here that the father of the aforementioned Faiḍullāh Khān, Qāḍī Zafar-ud-Din, was also a bitter enemy of this Jama'at. And when he started writing an Arabic poem against my Jama'at,¹* he had not yet finished it and its manu- script was still with him but had not yet been published, when he died. 1. I had written an ode in Arabic named I'jāz-e-Aḥmadi ['The Miracle of Ahmad']. It was revealed to me that no one would be able to compete with it. If anyone did happen to have the ability, God would thwart their attempts. Thus, Qāḍī Zafar-ud-Dīn Aḥmad whose nature was leavened with denial, prejudice, and conceit had started writing a reply to this ode to deny the word of the Divine when the Angel of Death put an end to him and his design. (Author)