Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 204
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 204 application [of this principle] of punishment without any excep- tion. It is beyond me why God is offended if the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, falsely attrib- utes something to Allah, but if someone else commits the same offense, there are no consequences [God forbid]. Look back at the time of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. He [Maulawi Muhammad Husain] himself wrote its review also. Ask him under oath if I was all alone at that time or not. And now I have more than 400,000 people with me. Does Allah the Exalted ever help a fabricator in this way? In short, Allah the Exalted has Himself set the differenti- ating criteria between the dreams of ordinary people and the wahi of Prophets. Almost every category of people have this common experience by way of similarity of kind but the wahi of Prophets is distinguished and trustworthy in its quality, quantity, profusion, and its attendant support [by God]. I do not claim that I have a law-bearing prophethood. I believe that law-bearing prophethood ended with the Holy Prophet s as. My claim is that I am to serve this very same Shariah with the help of revelations, discourses, conversations, and prophecies [from Allah the Exalted]. Mujaddid Sahib writes that the same dreams and revela- tions that man experiences off and on, makes one a muhaddath [recipient of discourse with God] if he receives them in abun- dance. I have explained all this in detail in my book, H aq i qatul- Wa hi. He can study it to satisfy his curiosity. 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 12, no. 18, p. 4–5, dated 10 March 1908