Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 450
450 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION as he himself has explained in this letter. It is surprising, though, that God should have addressed me so respectfully that instead of calling me 'Mirza, He has addressed me as 'Mirza Sahib. Perhaps they should learn etiquettes from God Almighty. The second wonder is that, despite my request that my name should appear in the revelation, God was too shy to mention my name and the overpowering effect of the shame vented Him from uttering my name. Am I named Mirza Sahib! Is there no one else in the world called Mirza Sahib? pre- And the third surprise is that according to the ‘revelation', I am supposed to be the Pharaoh and Muḥy-ud-Din becomes a surrogate of Mūsā. As such, I should have died during the lifetime of ‘Mūsa', not that 'Mūsa' himself should have died [in the lifetime of 'Pharaoh']. Muḥy-ud-Din was continuing to pray against me and he had witnessed a number of 'revelations' concerning my death. How is it that all those 'revelations' reverted to him instead, and it was he who died instead of me! Is it not strange that he who was declared by him to be the Pharaoh is still alive and is the one speaking-nay rather, he progresses by the day but the one who considered himself to be the like of Mūsā, had passed away from this world many years ago and he cannot be found anywhere in the world? What kind of Mūsā was he who departed this world while Pharaoh was living! Furthermore, another revelation of Muḥy-ud-Din was meaning that, your maligner shall be destroyed and he shall remain issueless and shall die issueless. This revelation, in his opinion, indicated my perdition and destruction and death as issueless. ' 1. This is not the sole effect of the mubahalah that Maulawi Muḥy-ud-Din, after this prayer of his himself died and so did his eighteen year old son. I have sent some ladies and learnt through them that his wife her- self says that after this curse, their household turned upside down. Maulawi Muḥy-ud-Din soon died on the way from Makkah to Madinah; and they faced such financial straits and hardships that they now survive only by beg- ging-they bring flour from certain villages as charity and fill their bellies, but they starve on the day that flour does not come. His widow said, 'A veri- table night has now descended upon us. ' (Author)