Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 524
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 524 upon the standard of prophetic precept. A man who buys a pot for even as little as a penny still takes care of it. Then why do they start to hurl abuse immediately upon hearing our words without giving it serious thought? This is a highly inappropri- ate matter. Evaluate my claim in the way that I have proposed. And then, if you find me to be a liar even by using this method, you can abandon me with regret. But I tell you most assuredly that I am not a fabricator. I am not a liar. Rather, I am that very one promised by the Prophets, to whom the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has sent his sal a m [salutation of peace]. I am that very Promised Messiah who was to come in the 14th century and who is also the Mahdi. Only he accepts me whom Allah the Exalted grants the seeing eye through His grace. This Jam a ‘at is now growing day by day. God desires for it to grow, and so it will grow. And grow it definitely will. 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 20, p. 2, dated 10 June 1905