The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 437
Repeated Challenges 437 disbeliever, but, on account of the illness of the scribe and some other reasons, that part has not yet been printed. All the same, I shall read out the contents of the paper in the meeting called for the purpose of. Mubahalah, whether or not it has been printed by that time. It is a necessary condition that I should refute whatever has been written against me by those who have denounced me as a disbeliever, and that I should put forward convincing arguments which will leave no room for them to denounce me. If they still continue to do so, the Mubahalah supplication shall be made in the same meeting. The revelation that has been vouchsafed to me in this context is as follows: نَظَرَ اللهُ إِلَيْكَ مُعَطَّرًا. وَقَالُوا اَ تَجْعَلُ فِيْهَا مَنْ يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ قَالُوْا كِتَابٌ مُمْتَلِيٌّ مِّنَ الْكُفْرِ وَ الْكِذْبِ قُلْ تَعَالَوْا نَدْعُ أَبْنَاثَنَا وَ اَبْنَا تَكُمْ وَنِسَآئَنَا وَنِسَآئَكُمْ وَأَنْفُسَنَا وَأَنْفُسَكُمْ ثُمَّ نَبْتَهِلْ فَنَجْعَلْ لَعْنَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَاذِبِينَ 'God Almighty has looked at you with a fragrant look. . Some people have said in their hearts: Lord will you establish someone in the earth who will create disturbance therein? And God replied to them: I know that which you know not. They said: His book is replete with disbelief and falsehood. Say to them: Come, let us call our sons and your sons, and our women and your women and our own selves and your own selves and call down the curse of Allah on the liars. ". This is the permission that I have been granted for. Mubahalah. [Ā'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 261-266]. O Ye Maulavis and custodians of shrines who oppose