Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 458
458 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION When this Arabic address, which has been named Khutbah Ilhamiyyah ['The Revealed Sermon'], was delivered to the people, an audience of perhaps two hundred was present at the time. Holy is Allah! It seemed as if a fountain had begun to flow from the unseen, and I knew not whether I was the one who was speaking or it was an angel address- ing through my tongue, because I was aware that I had no part in this address. Preformed sentences kept proceeding from my mouth and every sentence was a Sign for me. All of these sentences have been preserved in published form under the name of Khutbah Ilhamiyyah. One will appre- ciate, by reading this booklet, whether it is in the capacity of any human being to stand up and, entirely extemporarily, deliver such a long speech in the Arabic language without thinking or contemplating. This is a lit- erary miracle that God showed, and no one can present its like. 166. [ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIXTH] SIGN-I have suffered from two ailments for a long time. The first is migraine, due to which I used to become very restless and horrifying complaints would develop. I suffered from this illness for nearly twenty-five years and then, along with it, I was afflicted with dizziness. Physicians opine that these disorders ultimately lead to epilepsy. Accordingly, my elder brother, Mirza Ghulam Qādir, after suffering from this very ailment for about two months, fell victim to epilepsy and this is what he died of. Therefore, I continued to supplicate that God Almighty may safeguard me against these ailments. On one occasion, I perceived in a vision that an evil spirit in the form of a black animal with four feet which had the height of a sheep having long hair and big claws, was about to attack me. It was instilled in my heart that this, indeed, was epilepsy. I struck its chest force- fully with my right hand and said, 'Go away! You have no part in me. ' Hence God knows that all those dangerous complaints subsided and that severe pain completely disappeared; I only suffer from occasional dizziness so that the prophecy relating to the two yellow sheets [i. e. illnesses] may not be affected.