Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 677
A SHINING SIGN—SIGN NUMBER 198 677 those who claim to be recipients of revelation were to keep this condi- tion in mind, they would escape falling into this trial. Similarly, if Ilāhī Bakhsh had just pondered a little over this and reflected as to how many divine Signs had appeared in his favour― how much he had been helped and supported and what distinction he had been granted in comparison to ordinary people—he would have avoided this calamity. Now, regrettably, it must be said that his death leaves behind nothing more than a heap of lies and fabrications. With reference to me, he used to quote one of his own revelations that I would die of the plague during his lifetime and that my entire Jama'at would disintegrate. Thus did he see himself die from the plague. He had claimed that he would not die until he would put an end to me, but subsequent to his false revelation, he witnessed himself how the number of my followers rose to many hundreds of thousands. When he started to publish such revelations, the number of my followers did not exceed forty, which subsequently rose to 400,000 and he did not die until he had witnessed his own complete failure and my success in every way. Impelled by his own false revelations, he would think that I would be penalized and suffer humiliating chastisement in each case filed against me. These were the type of revelations that he would receive and flaunt before his acquaintances, but in each case, God went on acquitting me with honour, whereas he died full of immense frustration. There is no doubt that when he contracted the plague and saw death staring him in the face, he must have realized that all his rev- elations were satanic words and at that moment he must have been reminded that he was in the wrong. It would be against all logic and probability to assume that even after suffering so many stumbles, contracting the plague himself—which he anticipated would be my lot and visualizing my victories in the final moments of his life, he would have still held on to his erstwhile condition [of disbelief] when he would have recalled that he had claimed to be Mūsā, had named his book Aşa-e-Mūsā [i. e. "The Staff of Moses'], and had entertained