Tadhkirah — Page 576
576 [Arabic] I shall utterly destroy, I shall demolish, [and] I shall punish him, if he remains in doubt, does not accept, and does not retract his claim of being a messenger and a commissioned one, and does not seek the forgiveness of those helpers in the cause of Allah, who over long years have been diligent in serving, helping, and keeping company day and night. This is because he has disrespected all the sincere members of the Jama'at and has exalted himself above all of them. [D afi ‘u l-B a la’ , pp. 23–24 footnote 2, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 243 footnote 2] April 28, 1902 [Arabic] I shall safeguard all those who dwell within the four walls of your house from plague. 617 [al- H akam, vol. 6, no. 16, April 30, 1902, p. 7] hopelessness. Only a few days before, he had drawn up a statement of mub a halah praying that of the two of us he who is false should be destroyed. That paper was still with the copywriter who was occupied in writing its lithograph copy when Char a gh D i n and his two sons died suddenly of the plague. [So take a lesson, O ye who have eyes. ] [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 123, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 126] 617 Note dated May 4, 1904: Today Mau l a vi Muhammad ‘Al i , M. A. manager and editor of the Review of Religions, became indisposed. He had a headache and felt that his temperature was rising and he suspected that these might be symptoms of the plague. When the Promised Messiah as was informed of this, he immediately visited Mau l a vi Muhammad ‘Al i and said: If you suffer from plague while you are dwelling in my d a r ,* then the revelation received by me: and all our affairs would be proved vain. He examined his pulse and assured him that he certainly had no fever and this was confirmed by a reading of the thermometer. The Promised Messiah as