Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 825
CHAPTER TWO 825 you not has not been granted to any of his contemporaries, and annihilate or disgrace and abase before his eyes whoever engages in a mubahalah with him? Have you ever witnessed divine succour, like that bestowed upon me, for someone who is always inclined towards worldly pursuits, and has fallen in love with worldly charms and is from among the fabricators and deceivers? Have you ever seen Allah's help for such a one the way He has helped me? What then is the matter with you? Why do reflect like the righteous? May God guide you. How long will you con- tinue to declare the servants of God, who are recipients of His support, to be disbelievers? You reject me, and I do not know why you reject me. Have I repudiated the Book of Allah or denied that which the Prophets have brought? Or have you not witnessed divine Signs, so that you are in doubt? Or have I come to you at the wrong time to let you allege that I have come like an impostor? What is the matter that you neither understand nor recognize the truth? Reflect upon the earlier group of impostors and the large multitude of pretenders claiming to receive revelation: how Allah smashed them into pieces on account of their imposture and how He destroyed them, left no trace of them, effaced their signs, and annihilated their supporters for their lying and for their competing with the truthful ones. Had it not been for the differentiation made by Allah between truth and falsehood, peace would have disappeared. The holy would have been deemed to be at par with the unholy, and the deserts with habitations. No distinction would have been left between those favoured by God and those rejected by Him. May God have mercy on you. Know that falsehood does not last long and impostors are humiliated in the last part of their lives. Moreover, the impostors are a forsaken community that is not sup- ported by the All-Knowing God, nor does He testify to their truth. Their quivers are without arrows. They possess nothing but talk. They are not supported, nor blessed like the elect of God. For this indeed is the way of Allah that whenever an impostor rises against a truthful one, and stands up to him in disagreement and confronts him with