Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 201
POSTSCRIPT QUESTION (6) 201 a particular part of the land, jealousy of God Almighty is aroused to send down a widespread chastisement, and calamities descend from the heavens in general. And often it so happens that the real culprits, who are the actual source of mischief, are caught later, just as Pharaoh remained unharmed by the Signs of divine wrath, which Ḥaḍrat Mūsā showed in his presence. Only the poor perished. But in the end, God drowned Pharaoh along with his hordes. This is the way of God which no knowledgeable person can deny! Question (6) Your Exalted Holiness has written at thousands of places that it is not legitimate in any way to declare anyone who recites the Kalimah [the declaration of faith in Islam] and faces towards the Qiblah, as disbe- liever. This clearly shows that, except for the 'believers' who turn dis- believer by pronouncing you to be a disbeliever, a simple failure to believe in you does not make one a disbeliever. But to ‘Abdul-Ḥakīm Khān you have written that everyone to whom the message has been conveyed and fails to accept you is not a Muslim. There is a contra- diction between this statement and the statements recorded in your earlier books. That is, you have written earlier in Tiryāqul-Qulub and elsewhere that failure to believe in you does not turn one into a disbe- liever, but now you write that disbelief in you makes one a disbeliever. ANSWER: It is strange that you consider the one who declares me a disbeliever and the one who disbelieves in me as two different kinds of persons; whereas, in the estimation of God, there is only one kind, for the one who does not believe in me does so for the very reason that he considers me an impostor. But Allah the Exalted says that one who forges a lie against God is the greatest disbeliever from among the dis- believers, as He says: