Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 704
704 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION of peace!' I do not know which fire became cold for him. The only fire that overtook him was that of the plague which of course did not cool down, and consumed him in the span of a single day. In Lahore, hun- dreds contracted the plague and recovered in the end, but this so-called mulham [the recipient of revelation] failed to recover and his untimely death forced him to leave this transitory world along with thousands of unfulfilled wishes. Now he has, of course, left this world, and I am obligated to write this in the interest of his friends because after Bābū's death I had received the following revelation: فَتَنَّا بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ Meaning that, through Ilāhī Bakhsh's death, We decided to try his friends to see whether, even now, they have understood or not. It is well known that Bābū Ilāhī Bakhsh had aggressively risen to oppose me and that he left no stone unturned to degrade and insult me. He had misled people by means of his book. Every day, he eagerly awaited my death and destruction and used to regale his friends by reciting hundreds of such revelations. And very specifically he had announced in his book that I would die by the plague, but what happened was that he himself died of the plague in total frustration. And God helped me in every way and it is clearly written in the Holy Quran that: كَتَبَ اللهُ لَاغْلِبَنَ أَنَا وَ رُسُلِي Meaning that, it is a categorical promise of God that those people who come from God triumph over those who oppose them. So what mystery lies hidden behind the fact that Bābū could not succeed in his opposition to me? A huge storm of plague which had 1. Allah has decreed: 'Most surely I will prevail, I and My Messengers' (Sürah al-Mujadalah, 58:22). [Publisher]