The Heavenly Decree — Page 38
38 A sm a n i Fai s lah me a heretic and a liar. In such an event, I would be deserving of every insult, contempt and humiliation. I shall declare publicly in that very meeting that I am not from Allah and that all my claims are false. But I am certain—and I can see—that my God will never let this come to pass, and He will never allow me to perish. If the afore-mentioned scholars choose to evade this definitive test, it would not merely be unfair, in my view, they would invite upon themselves deep mistrust of the intelligentsia by taking recourse to silence or by relying upon misleading and false responses. If, in response to the one who is standing ready for the contest, they come up with some false and cunningly invented excuse, then remember that those who seek and love the truth will scorn such a response and all judicious persons will view it with regret. It is possible that some may ask, why doesn’t the person who claims to be the Promised Messiah unilaterally show such signs as can satisfy the people? The answer is that all these people are followers of religious clerics, and these clerics have propagated through public announcements that I am a kafir and a Dajj a l and am not to be believed no matter how many signs I may show. Shaikh Bat a law i has clearly written all this in a lengthy poster published after the debate in Ludhiana. He has written with great cheek and hostility that people should not pay heed to my invitations towards Heavenly signs, because even Ibni