The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 165
Miscellaneous Signs 165. Charāgh Dīn continuously received satanic revelations to the effect that I was Dajjal [the Antichrist] and that he himself had been commissioned by God to annihilate this Dajjāl, and that Jesus had given him his own sceptre to kill him, his arrogance knew no bounds. He wrote a book entitled Mināratul Masiḥ in which he stressed again and again that I was, in fact, the promised Dajjāl. A year after the publication of. Mināratul Masīḥ, he wrote another book to prove that. I was the Dajjal, and continued to remind people that. I was the same Dajjal whose advent has been foretold in Hadith. Since the hour of Divine wrath upon him had drawn near, he included in the second book the prayer of mubahala, and supplicated before God for my destruction. After denouncing me as ‘a mischiefmaker', he prayed to God that He may rid the world of my mischief. It is a marvellous manifestation of. Divine power, as well as a warning, that when he had handed over the piece of writing concerning mubahala to the scribe, and even before it could be placed on the lithographic plates, both his sons died of the plague. Finally, on 4th April, 1901, only two or three days after the death of his sons, he too contracted the plague and departed from this world, thus making it clear to the people who was the truthful one, and who was the liar. Those who were present at the time of his death report him as having said, "Now even God has turned against me. " [Haqiqat-ul-Waḥī, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 22, p. 387]