Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 889
MUBAHALAH WITH DOWIE 889 him in every respect by destroying all such means that enabled him to live in glory and honour. All of his possessions were surrendered to the con- trol of someone else. The air of arrogance he wore smote him with such misery and darkness that he lost every hope of regaining his previous wealth. He was forced to nurse from the infertile chest of this world and to ride on the back of malnourished poverty. Then it so happened that some of his rela- tives snatched his remaining wealth from him like debt collectors. On top of this, his wife, friends, and sons treated him in an extremely disgrace- ful manner to the extent that his so-called father published an announcement in certain American newspapers that Dowie was not his legitimate son, that he was born out of wedlock and was not his seed. This is how the storm of adversity and misfor- tune uprooted him from his very foundations. Life cast upon him all kinds of humiliation, rendering him like a rotten bone buried beneath the surface of the earth or like a snake-bitten person who met a horrible end.