Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 86
86 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION people who mentioned me by name even before my birth, or before I came of age, and spoke about my being the Promised Messiah. Among these are Ni'matullah Walī and Miyān Gulāb Shāh of Jamalpur, District Ludhiana. Some Signs are such that their scope extends to the people of all nations and all lands and all ages—namely the series of prayer duels, many manifestations of which have been witnessed by the world. * After observing a fair number, I have for my part ended the call for mubaha- lahs, but everyone who considers me to be a liar, deceitful, or an impos- tor, and rejects my claim of being the Promised Messiah, and regards the revelation vouchsafed to me by God Almighty as my fabrication, whether he is a Muslim, Hindu, Āryah or follower of any other reli- gion, he is, of course, at liberty to publish a written mubahalah against me on his own accord. He should announce it in some newspapers, taking oath in the name of God Almighty, that: I am fully convinced that this man (here he should write my name explicitly), who claims to be the Promised Messiah, is indeed a liar and that these revelations, some of which he has written in this book, are not the words of God but are all his fabrication. And I consider him with full conviction, on the basis of my profound insight and comprehensive consideration, to be an impostor, liar, and dajjāl [deceiver]. Thus 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 insult- ing him, send down some severe chastisement upon me, otherwise may You chastise him, Amin. This method of seeking a fresh Sign is open to everyone. And I 1. It would be enough for a fair-minded person to read what Maulawi Ghulām Dastagir Qasuri wrote in his book; how he entered into a prayer duel with me in his own way and announced it in his treatise Faid-e-Raḥmāni; and how he met his end only a few days later. There is also the case of Charagh Din of Jammu who entered into a prayer duel with me in his own way and prayed that may God bring death upon whoever of us was a liar. He died of plague only a few days later along with both of his sons. (Author)