The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 345
Repeated Challenges 345 237 قُلْ إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا أَوَّلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ - اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَذْهَبَ عَنِّي الْحُزْنَ وَأَثْنِي مَالَمُ يُؤْتَ أَحَداً مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ "Anyone else in the world 238" refers to the people of this age and of the future. [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 478-479]. I say with full confidence that no one can match the blessings that God Almighty has manifested for people in consequence of my resolve, attention and supplications, and soon He will manifest many more signs till my opponents will have to accept my claim. I have often said that I have been bestowed two kinds of blessings: those of Jesusas and those of Muḥammadsa. I know on the basis of knowledge bestowed on me by God Almighty that the degree of acceptance that can be achieved by my supplications on behalf of the problems of the world cannot be achieved by the supplications of others and the religious and Qur'ānic insights, verities, and mysteries which I can set forth at the highest level of composition, cannot be set forth by anyone else. . If the whole world were to combine against me for such a test, I would emerge victorious. If all people were to confront me, I would, by the grace of God Almighty, prevail over them. O Muslims! You have among you commentators of the Holy Qur'ān and Aḥādīth, and those who claim knowledge and understanding of the Holy Qur'ān, 237 Tell them, I have been commissioned and I am the foremost of those who believe. All praise belongs to Allah Who has removed from me all grief and has bestowed upon me that which has not been bestowed upon anyone else in the world. [Publisher] 238 The phrase in quotation marks is the last phrase of the revelation in Arabic quoted above. [Publisher]