Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 760
760 HAQIQATUL-WAHI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Below are the reproduced texts of the mubāhalah from each side. The signed statements of both sides are in my possession. The Signed Statement of Faidullah Khan Signed Statement of Faidullah Khăn بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ . نَحْمَدُهُ وَنُصَلِّي عَلَى رَسُوْلِهِ الْكَرِيمِ. الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَ اسْمِهِ شَيْءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ. [In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. We praise Him and invoke His blessings upon His Noble Messenger. All praise be to Allah with whose name nothing can harm, either in the earth or in the heaven. He is All-Hearing and All-Knowing. ] After praising God and invoking blessings upon the Holy Prophet of the Lord of all the worlds, I, Qādī Faidullāh Khān, son of the late Qādī Zafar-ud-Din Ahmad, hereby declare that I am a Hanafi Muslim fully abiding by the tradition of the Holy Prophetsa. I believe that after the demise of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who is Khatamun-Nabiyyīn [the Seal of the Prophets], the descent of wahi [divine revelation] is against the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. I reject Mirza Sahib's claim that he is the like of, and the Promised Messiah. And Munshi Mahtab Ali son of Munshi Karim Bakhsh, a resident of Jalandhar city and a follower of the above-mentioned Mirza Sahib, claims that whoever denies this claim of his shall be overtaken by the chastisement of God. Therefore, I pray that whoever is the liar of us two may be overtaken by a divine chastisement such as death, a disease like the plague, or incarceration resulting from some legal case. In