Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 413
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 144 413 of Mir [Nasir Nawab] that I was indeed supplicating, but they must repent and seek [God's] forgiveness much, because I had seen in the dream that they had invited the enemy to their house, which indicated some wrongdoing on their part. Although I knew that death was the eternal law of nature, yet it occurred to me that if someone died of the plague in my household an uproar of pronouncing me as a liar would develop, and, after that, even if I were to present a thousand Signs, they would be of no avail against this particular objection because I had already written and publicized hundreds of times and told thou- sands of people that all members of my household would remain safe from death by the plague. In short, I cannot describe the condition of my heart at that time. I immediately engaged myself in supplication. After the supplication, I witnessed a wondrous spectacle of divine providence that, within two to three hours, Ishaq's fever miraculously subsided and no trace of the tumours was left. He not only sat up, but started moving, walking, playing, and running, as if he had never been ill! This, indeed, is giving life to the dead! I proclaim it on oath, that the raising of the dead by Ḥaḍrat ‘Īsā was absolutely nothing more than this. People can exaggerate his miracles now as much as they like, but this is what the reality was. He who really dies, passing away from this world and the Angel of Death taking his soul away, does not come back at all. Take note that Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Quran: 1 فيمُسِكُ الَّتِي قَضَى عَلَيْهَا الْمَوْتَ. 144. [ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOURTH] SIGN-Maulawi Ismā'il, a resident of Aligarh, was the first to gird his loins in hostility and, as I have mentioned in my book Fatḥ-e-Islām ['Victory of Islam'], he pub- licised concerning me that I prophesy with the help of geomancy and astrology and that I keep astrological instruments in my possession. I 1. And then He retains those against which He has decreed death (Surah az-Zumar, 39:43). [Publisher]