Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 540
540 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Meaning that, God does not reveal the plainly clear and manifestly lucid knowledge of the unseen to anyone except His Messengers. It is therefore evident that there cannot possibly be a brighter hallmark of a Sign than the pronouncement of a fully detailed proph- ecy and its eventual manifest fulfilment exactly in the manner detailed. 2. SECOND SIGN [189]-Among those Signs the second Sign is that on 30 July 1906 and on several days thereafter, I was informed by rev- elation that a member of my Community would die suddenly by the bursting of his belly in the month of Sha‘bān. In accordance with the prophecy, Miyāń Ṣāḥib Nūr, the migrant and companion of Ṣāḥibzādah Maulawī ‘Abdul-Laṭīf Ṣāḥib, suddenly died of a burst belly in Sha'bān AH 1324. It was learnt that he had been suffering from a gastric tumour, but he did not feel any discomfort. He was a rather robust and strong young man. All of a sudden he felt pain in his stomach and his last words that he cried three times were, 'My belly has burst'; after which he died. And as foretold in the prophecy, he died suddenly in the month of Sha'bān. This prophecy had been published well before its fulfilment in the newspapers Badr and al-Hakam. 3. THIRD SIGN [190]-Among other Signs is the death of Sa'dullah of Ludhiana, which took place in accordance with a prophecy, the detail of which follows. When Munshi Sa'dullah of Ludhiana exceeded all limits in his foul and abusive diatribes, and hurled so much abuse upon me, employing prose and poetry, that I believe he had the filthiest tongue from among my foul-mouthed enemies in the Punjab, it was then that I prayed to God Almighty that he may die a death of disappointment¹ during my own 1. As I will explain later that this man, i. e. Sa'dullāh, had predicted my death and announced that in his own lifetime I would die a disgraceful death. I had announced that he would die in my own lifetime. In the end my God proved me right and he died in the first week of January 1907, taking his frustration and humiliation with him. (Author)