The Heavenly Sign — Page 68
THE TRUTH ABOUT SHAIKH BATALVI'S EDICT OF DISBELIEF I have read this edict from end to end. If Allah so wills, a treatise of mine, named D a fi‘ul Was a wis, exposing how wrong and contrary to facts are the allegations this edict is based on, is going to be published very soon. Still, I do not, in the least, grieve at their taunts and curses nor do I have any fear. On the contrary, I am glad that by calling me the Infidel, the Rejected, the Accursed, the Dajj a l , the Prevaricator, the Unbeliever, the Damned, nay, the Arch- infidel, Mi an Nadh i r H ussain, Shaikh Bat alwi and their followers have been able to give vent to their inner feelings. This would have been impossible, had they shown due regard to honesty, integrity and piety. Also, they had no other way of getting over their great grief at the successive wounds which they received at the hands of my incontrovertible arguments and acrimonious veracity, other than to resort to abuse. I feel glad when I reflect that according to the history of the People of the Book and the four Gospels, the gift that the Jewish Jurists and Scholars had ultimately presented to Messiah as was similar curses and ridicule. Therefore, being the 'Like-of-Jesus as ', I should be very happy to hear these curses. As Allah, the Exalted, has bestowed on me the Essence of Messianic attributes of ‘ I s a as to destroy and annihilate the very 68