Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 345
1 May 1908 345 destruction for the liar so that a distinction be drawn between truth and falsehood, and so that it may be apparent to the world as to which path—the religion of Islam or the Arya faith—is dear and acceptable to God and which stands accursed. And the whole world knows what the verdict was at the end, as to who was helped by God and who died in despair. And in this way was it was settled once and for all, between the truthful and the liar, between Islam and the Arya faith. 1 These are the Signs of God and these are the means of dif- ferentiating. What can be achieved by dry arguments! Has anyone ever seen one make his opponent surrender as the result of a debate? Take Khabt-e-Ahmadiyyah on the one hand, and take my books in which this prophecy is recorded in great detail on the other. Then compare and see which is the speech of God and which is that of Satan. If my pronouncement had not been from God and with the command of God, was it not possible that I could indeed have died and he could have lived as was expected from the obvious circumstances? I was older than him in age and then I was suffering from illnesses, while on the other side, he was strong, robust, and healthy. Nevertheless, not only this, but also everyone else beside him—whosoever undertook a mubahalah [prayer duel] against me—was himself humiliated, killed. Ghulam Dastagir of Kasur and Muhy-ud-Din of Lakhookay—these people did mubaha- lah and placed an eternal seal upon my veracity by perishing themselves. Maulawi Chiragh Din of Jammu prophesied about me that I would die of the plague and waged the mubahalah , but look, he himself died of plague. There was one Faqir Mirza. He had also announced that Mirza [that is, I] would die in the month of Ramadan and that he had been informed of this news 1. Al- H akam, vol. 12, no. 31, p. 3–6, dated 6 May 1908