Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 277
Malfuzat - Volume I 277 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, there were soothsayers who would disclose matters of the unseen. Sateeh was also a known soothsayer. However, there is a difference between the hidden knowledge of diviners and soothsayers, and the disclosing of the unseen by those who are commissioned by Allah and who are recipients of His revelation. The revealing of matters unseen by the recipients of revelation possesses within it a certain Godly power and divine awe. Therefore, the Holy Quran clearly states: فَلَا يُظْهِرُ عَلَى غَيْبِهِ أَحَدًا إِلَّا مَنِ ارْتَضَى مِنْ رَّسُولٍ And He reveals not His secrets to any one, except to him whom He chooses, namely a Messenger of His. In these verses, the very use of the expression izhar demonstrates that divine prophecies possess a grandeur and strength. The fourth sign relates to the subtleties and insights of the Holy Quran. For the insights of the Quran cannot be revealed to anyone who has not been purified by God. The Holy Quran states: لَا يَمَسُّةٌ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ None shall touch it except those who are purified. I have said many a time that those who oppose me ought to pen a commentary on a certain chapter of the Holy Quran and I shall do the same. Then the two commentaries may be compared. However, no one has dared to take up this chal- lenge. Muhammad Husain and others have asserted that I do not know a single tense of Arabic grammar; yet when my books were presented to him, he would raise weak and futile arguments asserting that my Arabic was so poor and dis- jointed that it could not even be called Arabic, but he was unable to produce even a single page himself and demonstrate that this is how one writes proper Arabic. Hence, these are the four signs that I have been granted especially in favour of my truthfulness. ³ 1 al-Jinn, 72:27-28 2 al-Waqi'ah, 56:80 Al-Hakam, vol. 2, nos. 28-29, dated 20-27 September 1898, p. 3-4