Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 815
CHAPTER TWO 815 God did not send a Mujaddid [Reformer] in this age when this was the precise time for bringing down the heavenly food-n -not for folding up the dining table? How can you imagine that the Benevolent God did not want to reform mankind in the face of this profusion of innova- tions and flood of evils; and that, instead, He imposed on Muslims an Antichrist [deceiver] from among themselves, so that he might cause them to be destroyed by the poison of misguidance? Was the Christian mischief not sufficient enough in its perversity that God Almighty had to complete it by means of this Antichrist? By Allah, such an opinion has not sprung from the fountain of wis- dom and insight, but it is a sound uglier than the braying of a donkey and weaker than the cry of a baby camel. In addition, how is it possi- ble that successive Signs be shown in support of a a person whom Allah knows to be an impostor? O band of deniers! Is there no vestige of righteousness left in your hearts? It is simply impossible that anyone should forge a lie against Allah yet Allah should help him the way He helps the chosen ones. If that were to happen, peace would disappear, the matter would become suspect, and faith would be shaken; in this is a trial for the seekers. Do you imagine that one can forge lies against God every day and night, morning and evening, and claim that he receives revelations―albeit nothing has been revealed to him—yet His Lord helps him as He helps the truthful? Is this something sane reason can accept? What has gone wrong with you that you do not reflect like the righteous? Are the Antichrist your only lot? Where are the rejuvenators and reformers at the time when the worms of disbelief have devoured the Faith? Do you not see? Do you not see how the Christian scholars are deceiving the igno- rant and how they gild their words and deeds in order to lure them? Most certainly God has sent down for you an argument against them. O Wise ones! Why do you not benefit from His argument? I swear by Allah that even if their earlier ones and their latter ones, their elite and their commoners, and their men and their women, were to gather together, they would not be able to produce a single Sign like the ones