Tadhkirah — Page 113
1883 113 [Arabic] Say: The [real] guidance is only the guidance from Allah. My Lord is with me, He will soon open the way for me. O my Lord, have mercy from heaven and forgive; I am overcome so do You combat [the enemy] on my behalf. O my Lord, O my Lord, why have you forsaken me? Eli aus. The last portion of this revelation, i. e. , Eli aus, has remained unclear on account of the speed of the revelation, nor were its meaning disclosed to me. [Allah knows best]… [Arabic] O ‘Abdul-Q a dir I am with you, hearing and seeing. For you, I have planted mercy and omnipotence with My own hand and have delivered you from sorrow and have [Arabic] [ I have lived a whole lifetime among you before this, then do you not understand? ] This was an indication on behalf of God the All-Knowing, that no opponent of mine would be able to point to any default in my life. Accordingly, up till now, when I am about sixty-five years of age, no one, whether living close to me or far from me, can point to any stain in my past life. Indeed God Himself has made my opponents bear witness to the purity of my past life. For instance, Maulav i Muhammad H usain has, on many occasions, praised me and the members of my family in his journal Ish a ’atus-Sunnah and has claimed that no one is better acquainted with me and my family than him. Then, to the extent that he understood, he praised me. In this way an opponent, who became the originator of my condemnation as a non-believer, has confirmed the truth of this prophecy [I have lived among you…]. [ N uz ul u l-M as ih , p. 212, R u h a n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 590]