The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 377
Punishment in this World 377 known that ever since the beginning of the world there has been no single instance in which an impostor had continued with his imposture for such a long period and had added to it daily but instead of being punished, greater and greater honour among people was bestowed upon him by God Almighty, with increasing acceptance by the people, and with his tongue serving as a fountain of verities and comprehensions. It is a pity that these hypocritical Maulavīs do not honour the commandments and warnings of God Almighty. Can they cite a single instance from the Holy Qur'an or from the Aḥādīth of an ill-natured impostor who goes on fabricating lies against. God and puts himself forward as one greatly loved by. God; who presents his satanic compositions deliberately as Divine revelation and proclaims that it is the Divine command that people should follow him; who falsely claims that God has revealed to him that he is the chief of the believers in this age and who falsely claims that God has told him that He has appointed him the Promised. Messiah who is sent to break the cross; who claims that. God has told him that his standing with God is like the. Unity of God and that the people are unaware of his close relationship with Him; while all the time God knows that he is an impostor and curses him and counts him among the rejected and the humiliated? Is it then the way of God. Almighty to grant a respite extending over more than twenty years to such a lying and daring impostor?. Who can reconcile himself to the fact that the Holy One, the flame of Whose wrath has always consumed impostors like lightning, should grant respite to a false one over a period of which there has been no other instance in the whole world? God, the Glorious, has said: