The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 157
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 157 these Maulavis, for they are nothing new. If someone is in doubt concerning me and my claim, I proceed to set out an easy way of resolving these doubts, which,. God willing, will satisfy a true seeker. Anyone who has such doubts should repent sincerely and offer two rak'as of prayer at night, reciting Surah Ya Sin in the first rak'a and Surah Al-Ikhlas twenty-one times in the second rak'a. Thereafter, calling down Durūd [blessings on the Holy Prophetsa] three hundred times and asking Istighfar [forgiveness of sins] three hundred times, he should supplicate in the following words: 'O Powerful and Noble One! You know all hidden things and we do not know. The accepted one and the righteous one, the rejected one and the impostor, none can remain hidden from You. We, therefore, humbly ask You to reveal to us the true standing of this person who claims to be the Promised Messiah, the. Mahdi and the Mujaddid [Reformer of the age]. Is he true or false? Is he, in Your estimation, an accepted one or a rejected one? Disclose his reality to us through a dream or vision or revelation, so that if he be a rejected one, we should not go astray by accepting him, and if he is an accepted one and is from You, we should not be ruined by denying and ridiculing him. Guard us against every trial, for You have every power (Amin). '. This supplication should be made for at least two weeks with an uncommitted mind. He whose mind is already full of rancour and ill-thinking and desires to