The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 443
Repeated Challenges 443 mighty, that he is fully convinced that I, who claim to be. Promised Messiah, am an impostor and liar and dajjal, and my supposed revelations, some of which are entered in this book, are not the words of God but are all of my own making. This statement should conclude with the supplication:. O God Almighty, if in Your estimation this person is true and not a liar, impostor, disbeliever and faithless, then may You on account of my rejecting him and slandering him, send down some severe punishment upon me, otherwise may You chastise him, Amin. . This method of seeking a sign is open to everyone. If, after the publication of this prayer in at least three wellknown newspapers, such a person should still escape heavenly punishment, everyone will be free to conclude that I am not from God. No period will be fixed for the manifestation of such a sign. The only requirement will be that something should occur which can be appreciated by everyone. [Ḥaqiqat-ul-Waḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, pp. 71-72]. Ever since God has named me the Promised Messiah and. Mahdi, those who call themselves Muslims and call me as a disbeliever, have been greatly agitated against me. I have proved my claim clearly on the basis of the Holy. Qur'ān and Aḥādīth, but they deliberately ignored what I said. Then God manifested many heavenly signs in my support but they derived no benefit from these either. . Thereafter many of them came forward for Mubahalah and some of them, who claimed to be recipients of revelation, predicted that I shall be destroyed within a specific period during their very lives, but they were themselves destroyed while I lived. Alas, even then the. Muslims did not reflect that if all my claims had been of