Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 173
3 MARCH 1907 173 occurred in a certain place and that he continued to go there repeat- edly. Eventually, he was struck by the plague and died. The Promised Messiahas said: When fire is raining down upon a place, then what is the need to go there? The Mubahalah of the Adversaries The Promised Messiahas said: Many a man of this country who continually abused me and would not stop coming after me, when their term came near, they themselves engaged in mubahalāh [prayer duel] that O God, annihilate the one who is a liar among [the two of] us. In the end, they themselves perished and thus set a seal upon my truthfulness. Abū Jahl engaged in a similar kind of mubahalāh with the Prophet, peace be on him, on the day of [the battle of] Badr. Abū Jahl had supplicated: 'Whoever among the two of us severs ties of kinship and is a mischief monger-O God!— make him perish this day. In the end, God Almighty made Abū Jahl perish that very day and his prayer was accepted against himself. ¹ 1. Al-Hakam, vol. 11, no. 9, p. 10-11, dated 17 March 1907