Arba'in — Page 176
176 our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—he was granted a life of twenty-three years to receive wa hi [revela- tions]. This period of life is the standard to gauge the truthful until the Day of Judgment. Thousands of curses of God, His angels, and the righteous servants of God be upon the one who considers any evil fabricator to partake in [the fulfilment of ] this sacred criterion. Even if the verse: 1 ْوَلَلَّوَقَت اَنْيَلَع had not been revealed in the Noble Quran, and if all the holy Prophets of God had not said that liars do not receive the lifespan that the truthful are afforded to receive Divine reve- lations, even then the love that a true Muslim should have for his beloved Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, would never allow him to be able to utter such a statement of insolence and audacity that this measure of time given to Prophets to receive revelations—that is, the twenty-three years that were given to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—could also be given to a liar! Nevertheless, given that the Holy Quran states in no uncertain terms that if this Prophet had been a liar, he would not have been granted this amount of life to receive revelations, and even the Torah has given this very testimony, with the Gospel being no different; then what sort of Islam is this, and what kind of Islamic practice 1. And if he had falsely attributed even a trivial statement to Us ( S u rah al- Ha qqah, 69:45). [Publisher]