Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 541
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 541 lifetime and may his death be disgraceful. His verbal abuses were not the solitary cause of this prayer; rather, its main cause was that he was desirous of my death and used to heap curses upon me in verse and prose. On account of his foolishness and ignorance, he desired my death and destruction from the very bottom of his heart, and it was his habit to pronounce ["The curse of Allah be upon the liars'] upon me. He ardently wished that I may die and perish within his own lifetime and that this Movement may suffer loss and decline so that I may be proven to be an impostor and thus become the target of curses by the people. Although all my enemies harbour similar designs—to see me die and that I should die within their lifetime-but this man exceeded them all and fully participated in all the evil design which my unfor- tunate opponents tried to hatch. I do not believe that anyone has ever heaped such filthy abuse upon any Prophet and Messenger [of God] since the creation of this world as he has hurled upon me. Anyone who might have come across his hostile poems, writings, and announcements would know how eager he was for my death and destruction, and how deeply desirous he was to see me humiliated and disappointed, and the extent to which his heart had become filthy on account of his hostility to me. It was because of all this that I had prayed for a death of frustration and disgrace for him within my lifetime. God was pleased to decree accordingly and he died within a few hours during the first week of January 1907 from the pneu- monic plague and left this transient world along with all his manifold frustrations. Maulawi Thana'ullāh, editor of Ahl-e-Hadith newspaper, has indi- cated the anguish and frustration in the death of Sa'dullah on page four of his paper, and writes that his son had become engaged to Ḥājī 'Abdur-Rahim's daughter and the marriage ceremony was about to take place, but Sa'dullah died. Sa'dullāh was not even bestowed the oppor- tunity to witness the wedding of his son. He only had one son, and he had gotten together all the things needed for the wedding and he