Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 107
Details of the Signs 107 Therefore, O wise ones, you can investigate the way you like. You have already heard that Allah had revealed to me at that time that He would not forsake me and would prepare for me legions of my friends. Hence, He fulfilled His promise in these three years and resurrected thousands of people at my hand and brought them out of graves. Hence, the purpose that had not been achieved in twenty years was achieved in just three years when, under oath, I made it the criterion for judging the truth of my claim. Undoubtedly, this is a supernatural phenomenon and a great sign from the Lord of Honour and Glory. If you are in doubt with regard to this sign, then present something similar form ages past or present, and bring forth any example that you may have with you whereby such great succour was granted to a person by Allah the Lord of Glory. However, it is incumbent upon you that in presenting such a similarity you should not go outside the area for which a precedent is required, and you must show me a person who, like me, made such a prophecy at a time of complete help- lessness and solitude, and then the opponents rejected him and stood up against him and tried in every way to destroy him and mobs of opponents relentlessly obstructed his path and no mach- ination such as sword and spear was spared to be used against him and yet his following increased from a single person to a hundred thousand and spread to all regions. At times, edicts of heresy were penned against me by Muslim scholars and at times I was dragged before the courts, but ultimately I emerged victorious and the number of my Community increased from a single person to one hundred thousand or more. If you think that this was the result of some human effort, then show me a precedent of this. I swear by