Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 196
196 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION from the Messenger of God and the miracles of the Messenger, pos- sesses faith akin to a wall of sand. He will be ruined tomorrow, if not today. Real faith is only that faith which is acquired after recognizing the Messenger of God. Such faith knows no decline, nor does it have an evil end. Similarly, the belief of a person whose submission to the Messenger is superficial, who fails to recognize him and is unaware of his light, is also of little value. In the end, such a person is bound to become an apostate, as Musailimah Kadhdhāb, ‘Abdullāh ibn Abi Saraḥ, and 'Ubaidullah ibn Jaḥsh turned apostates in the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him; Judas Iscariot and 500 other Christians turned apostates in the time of Hadrat Īsā, and Charagh Din of Jammu and ‘Abdul-Ḥakīm Khān in this time of mine. In your Question (4) earlier books Izāla-e-Auhām etc. , it is written that the proph- ecies of earthquakes, pestilences, wars, and famines can hardly be referred to as prophetic. But now it has been noted in a number of writings that Your Honour has acclaimed these very prophecies to be grand prophecies. ANSWER: It is not correct that I have pronounced those very proph- ecies to be 'grand. Greatness or lack of greatness of anything is indi- cated by its quantity and quality and also by the accompanying cir- cumstances as being unique or ordinary. The country, about which Ḥaḍrat Īsā, peace be upon him, prophesied that it would be visited by the plague and earthquakes, is such wherein plague regularly breaks out and like Kashmir, the said country too is hit by earthquakes as a matter of course and also by famines. It has also suffered many wars. And the prophecy of Hadrat Masiḥ [the Messiah] makes no mention