Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 794
794 AL-ISTIFTA' SUPPLEMENT TO HAQIQATUL-WAḤI over his enemies; He informed him about it before the events took place―O wise people!—is that not a Sign of his truthfulness? Does your reason permit that the Most Holy God—who is not pleased with anything but good deeds and does not grant His nearness to anyone except on account of his good deeds—would love a transgressor and an impostor, and permit him to have a life longer than that of our Holy Prophet, peace be upon him; that He would show enmity to his ene- mies and love to his friends and would show Signs in favour of him, honour him with His support and help him with His miracles and favour him with His blessings and grant him victory over his enemies in every field; that He would save him from harmful places and occa- sions of being reviled; while He-being displeased—would destroy and abase the one who challenges him through a mubahalah and, for his sake, would wield His whip and kill his enemy with a sword from the heavens? Would He do all this despite the knowledge that the man is imputing falsehood to Him and then, along with the fabrication, he presents his self-coined lies to people in order to mislead the ignorant? What is your opinion about this man? Has God helped him despite his fabrication, or is he from God and one of those who are truthful? Will those attain salvation who experience false dreams but claim to have received divine revelation, even though nothing has been revealed to them and they are only telling lies? Again, O learned people! I seek your verdict for the third time regarding the person you have heard about and the blessings that God Almighty has bestowed upon him. God has granted him fur- ther Signs aside from these that people might recognize him. One of these Signs is that the shooting stars broke apart and fell down on two occasions to support him. The moon and the sun testified to his truthfulness when they were eclipsed in the month of Ramadan. The Holy Quran had prophesied about them, when it mentioned both of these among the Signs of the Latter Days. Then the Hadith elabo- rated on what the Holy Quran had mentioned in brief. Certainly, God Almighty had also informed His humble servant about them, as was