Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 447
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 160 447 بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ حَامِدًا وَّ مُصَلِّيا [In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. We praise God and invoke His blessings. ] After this, 'Abdur-Raḥmān Muḥy-ud-Dīn submits to all Muslims that this humble one prayed thus: 'O the All-Knowing! Apprise me of the status of Mirza. During sleep, I received this Letter of 'Abdur- Raḥmān Muḥy-ud-Din إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَ هَامَانَ وَ جُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا خَاطِئِينَ. وَ إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ. revelation ['Verily, Pharaoh and Hāmān and their hosts were mistaken. Surely, it is your enemy who is without issue']. '* In reply 1. Quite a number of people also perish on account of failing to understand their dreams. This prayer of Maulawī ‘Abdur-Raḥmān Muḥy-ud-Din was meant to find out whether the Mirza [meaning me] was really a kāfir, as de- clared by Maulawi Nadhir Husain of Delhi, and his student Maulawi Abū Sa'id Muḥammad Husain of Batala and the rest of their hosts. What is his status in the sight of God? Thereupon, in its response (If we assume Muḥy-ud-Din's revelation to be Therefore, I would interpret إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَ جُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا خَطِينَ true, God said this revelation to mean that, in this revelation God Almighty designated the two maulawis, who were the founders of takfir (adjudging me as disbeliever) as Pharaoh and Hāmān and said that both of them and their followers were wrong in their takfir. Metaphorically speaking, the first to issue the edict of kufr was designated as the Pharaoh and the one who inscribed the edict as Hāmān and the other thousands of maulawis who followed them in the Punjab and India in this takfir of theirs were designated as their hosts. Had Maulawi Muḥy-ud-Din not been so unfortunate, this meaning [of the revela- tion] was quite clear; for these were the people who had followed the way of the Pharaoh and Hāmān that they resolved to annihilate me without inves- tigation and raised a storm against me. An additional argument for it is that in [my book] Barāhīn, some twenty-six years ago, by way of a prophecy, both these had been named the Pharaoh and Hämän. Thus, on page 510 and 511 of Barahin-e-Aḥmadiyya the following passage is recorded: وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ أَوْقِدْ لِنْ يَاهَا مَنْ لَعَلَّى اَطَّلِعُ عَلَى إِلَهِ مُوسَى وَإِنِّي لَأَظُنُّهُ مِنَ الْكَذِبِينَ. تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِيْ لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ. مَا كَانَ لَهُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ فِيْهَا إِلَّا خَائِفًا. وَمَا أَصَابَكَ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ الْفِتْنَةُ هُهُنَا فَاصْبِرْ كَمَا صَبَرَ أُولُو الْعَزْمِ، أَلَا إِنَّهَا فِتْنَةٌ مِّنَ اللهِ. لِيُحِبَّ حُبًّا جَمَّا. حُبًّا مِّنَ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْأَكْرَمِ عَطَاءٌ غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ. (See Barahin-e-Aḥmadiyya, p. 510, 511 [Rūḥāni Khaza'in, vol. 1, p. 609, 610])