Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 254
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 254 The Death of Il a h i Bakhsh A letter had come from Amritsar to H ak i mul-Ummat [the Sage of the Ummah—Maulaw i Noor-ud-Deen] that Il a h i Bakhsh received the revelation ُ ْل ی ْ ح َّ الر ُ ْل ی ْ ح َّ الر [ ar-ra hi l —‘the departure’] before his death. The Promised Messiah as said: The very meaning of ta‘u n [plague] is ‘death’. Hence, in such a predicament, everyone can understand that it is their time to depart [this life]. I then ask—assuming for the sake of argu- ment—that even if this revelation was fulfilled, then what hap- pened to that heap of revelations that preceded it? Why were they all utterly ruined and destroyed? What happened to his claims that this [Ahmadiyya] Movement would be destroyed right before his very eyes? An ironic outcome it is that ‘Moses’ drowned in the storm of the plague but ‘Pharaoh’ remains alive and well. Whether the forewarning revelation was fulfilled or not, what happened to the revelations of glad tidings? Forewarning news is itself a torment. Everyone knows how someone’s heart would suffer and should suffer if he is told that he would be hanged in three days. Ilh a m is that which affords some peace of mind and tran- quillity; not the contrary—torment. It is an ordinary affair to know the news of one’s torment in advance. Before the Battle of Badr , an idolatress saw a dream that blood was flowing under their tents. Ultimately, that dream was fulfilled, so should we then consider her a prophetess? It is pos- sible that َ ْل ی الرَّحِ َ ْل ی الرَّحِ [ ar-ra hi l —‘the departure’] was pronounced by Satan announcing his departure as is written that when Satan would see the torment, he would say, ‘I separate from you, for I see what you see not. ’