Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 864
864 AL-ISTIFTA' SUPPLEMENT TO ḤAQIQATUL-WAḤI and made them like their servants and maids. They might even try to launch their arrows at the heavens. Allah is my Witness, you cannot compete with them. They consider you nothing more than a speck of dust. Now, tell, should I be annoyed with you, or should I not? Why are you sleeping at this time? Are you pleased with the life of this world in exchange for the Hereafter and have, therefore, stooped heavily to the earth like drunkards? What has benumbed have you so that you become a victim of loss? O honourable people! What strength has survived in you? By Allah! Nothing remains save our Lord, the Great Bestower. I do not know what you earned in the past and what you will gain from your [worldly] resources in the future and how your wisdom, which is no more than a fly, will come to your help, and what adorn- ment you exhibit through these garments. When I stood up among you and claimed to be from Allah the Benevolent, you became angry and furious, calling me an impostor. You said that this man is a liar, and considered me to be like Satan the accursed. You did not even pay attention to the time, whether it called for the Antichrist to spread mis- guidance, or the Reformer to revive the Faith and return to you what you had lost. I call Allah as the Witness to what is in my heart. By Allah, I am from Him and I have not done anything with falsification. Indeed, you committed a great wrong when you undertook to declare me a disbe- liever and to humiliate me. You even ignored the crimes that are being committed today against Islam. So I cry for you with flowing tears and falling teardrops in the same way as you laugh and mock at me. What has gone wrong with you that you neither reflect upon your own selves nor upon the debilitating state of Islam? Are you not fed up with Antichrist that you crave for another one in this frightful time and in these threatening days? I have come to you at the turn of the century and at a time of true need. The lunar and solar eclipses, earthquakes, and the plague have all testified to my truth. It amazes me that you witness the Signs but still your doubts do not vanish. O scholars, is this what your insight tells you? Nay, the pride which you kept secret, and