Reply to a Mockery — Page 29
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 29 ill-fatedly, wish to destroy me. I am that plant which has been sown by the One and True Master with His own hand … O people! Understand that I am supported by the hand that will never break faith with me. If your men and your women, your old and your young, your weak and your strong, should gather together and pray for my destruction, then even though you may pray so hard that your noses rot away in prostrations and your hands become paralysed, He will still not heed your supplica- tions. He will not stop until His task is completed. So do not wrong yourselves. The faces of the honest and the dishonest are not the same. The Almighty does not leave anything without judgment. In the past, He always judged between His appointed servants and those who rejected them. In the same way, He will pass judgment on you, too. There are special seasons for the coming and departing of the Almighty’s appointed servants. So understand—I have not come out of season, nor will I depart out of sea- son. Do not fight the Almighty. It is not possible for you to destroy me. ( D a mim ah T u h fah Gola r hwiyyah, Ru ha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 17, pp. 49–50) Villager and Farmer In his pamphlet, Maulaw i Sahib taunts the Promised Messiah as for being a villager and the son of a farmer. According to Maulaw i Sahib, being a villager and a farmer is something to be ashamed of. It seems that, in his fervour of animosity towards the Promised