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Footnote Number Eleven 265 world. However, if you have the ability to compete and oppose, then produce some other composition matching the excellences of S u rah al-F a ti h ah. What this humble one has written about the spiritual qualities of S u rah al-F a ti h ah is not just hearsay; rather, this humble servant of Allah affirms on the basis of personal experience that S u rah al-F a ti h ah is, in truth, a manifestation of divine light. Such marvels have been witnessed during the course of its recitation which illustrate the dignity and eminence of the Holy Word of Allah. By the blessings of this blissful s u rah and through its regular recitation, disclosure of the unseen has reached a point that hundreds of hidden events have been, by divine favour, disclosed before their occurrence and solutions to every single difficulty have been unveiled in a marvellous manner. This humble servant of Allah recalls some 3,000 clear visions and true dreams that have been conveyed to me and have found clear fulfil- ment like the break of dawn and on more than 200 occasions, I have experienced the vivid signs of the acceptance of prayer at such critical moments that there appeared no way out of the difficulty. In the same way, through the regular recitation of this s u rah, I have experienced kashf-e-qub u r [opening of graves in a vision and disclos- ing of matters of the unseen] and so many wonders of diverse types that even if a minute reflection of them were to affect the heart of a Christian priest or a Hindu pundit he would immediately cast off all of his love of the world and would be ready to lay down his life to accept Islam. Similarly, the number of prophecies that have been dis- closed to this humble one through true revelations, and some of which have been fulfilled in the presence of the opponents and continue to be fulfilled, is so great that, in the estimate of this humble one, it is no less than two volumes of the Gospel. And my humble self, by virtue of obedience to the Noble Messenger, has been blessed by an abun- dance of favours in the discourses of the One True God, a brief sample of which has been set out in the Arabic revelations etc. comprised in Sub-Footnote Number Three. The Benevolent God has, on account of the blessings of my obedience to, and love of, His beloved Messenger