Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 27
Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God 27 above-mentioned revelations cited in Bar a h i n that people would criticise me , saying: Have you discovered meanings of the Holy Quran and a ha d i th , which you now present, that were not known to our earlier scholars and elders. Allah the Exalted retorted that although such is precisely the case, there was noth - ing extraordinary in this. After all, the ulema of the past were not Prophets. When D awu d, who was a Prophet, erred in his judgement, God granted his son Sulaim a n the ability to arrive at a just decision. So this ‘Sulaim a n’, who has been appointed as the Promised Messiah, is more correct [in his judgement] than your elders in the same way that Prophet Sulaim a n proved to be more correct than his father D awu d. And if Maulav i Ahmad Hasan does not desist through any means, then the time has now come that he should come to know by heavenly decree. That is, if he truly considers me a liar, and believes my revelations to be human inventions and not the word of God, he may avail himself of a simple mode of inquiry [to determine the truth]. So, just as I have received revelation from the Exalted God: ۃ لو ال االكرام لھلك المقام. ي انّہ اوی القر [He will give shelter to the town after it has suffered a little. Had it not been out of regard for you, this town would have been ruined. ] Let him also write انہ اوی امروھہ [He has given shelter to Amroha]. After all, God does listen to the call of a believer. What kind of a believer is a person whose own prayers go unheard while the prayers of someone he considers to be a dajj a l [antichrist],