Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 869
CHAPTER TWO 869 from Allah, the Benevolent! The doors of all kinds of goodness have been closed upon them, yet they imagine that they have been granted all kinds of bounties. They are content to live like animals turning their faces away from Allah's blessings and rewards. I am amazed at their sub- dued resolve and degraded condition. Hence, I will continue to seek their reformation from the Almighty until they are granted success. Indeed, I have devoted most of my time, particularly early in the morn- ing, to pray for them, and also [I have devoted to their well-being] my eye, which can never overlook these concerns. Allah is my Witness; I had informed them of the days of the plague before it actually broke out. I said nothing except when my Lord dis- closed its secrets to me and commanded me to make them known. Only then did it happen that the plague caught them and death was inflicted upon them, and I had informed them of this at a time when no physician could predict it and no sane person had prophesied about it. Then what followed was in accordance with what God had revealed to me. Indeed, this was a great argument from the Lord of the Heavens, yet people did not turn their eyes towards it. There was none among them who shed tears, neither did they hasten to repent or do good deeds. On the contrary, they only increased in sinfulness and vice. They rejected me and called me a kāfir and accused me of being the accursed Antichrist. In moments of my solitude, there was no one to console me except my Lord. In fact, they all united against me in abusing and vituperating me and chased me as creditors hound their debtors. Indeed, they did not recognize me on account of their age- old prejudice. I, therefore, kept myself hidden from their eyes like the People of the Cave and Inscription. وَاسْتَيْقَنَتْهَا أَنْفُسُهُمْ ظُلْمًا وَ عُلُوا 1. [And they rejected them] wrongfully and arrogantly, while their souls were convinced of them (Surah an-Naml, 27:15). [Publisher]