Tadhkirah — Page 204
204 interfering in this matter, Allah will be your Helper. God will ultimately bring her back to you. There is none who can change the words of Allah. Your Lord is the Powerful One, and whatever He determines to do, takes place. You are with Me and I am with you. Soon you will be granted a praiseworthy station, meaning that though the foolish and ignorant ones will say all sorts of disagreeable things out of their evil and suspicious minds, and will utter worthless words, but in the end, observing the support of God, they will feel ashamed. And when the truth is established everyone will give expression to praise. [Announcement of July 10, 1888, Majm u ‘a-e-Ishtih a r a t, vol. 1, pp. 157–159] (C) Of these Signs is one which my Lord has promised in respect of my near relations. They rejected and mocked the Signs of Allah and denied God and His Messenger and said: ‘We have no need of Allah or of His Book or of His Messenger, the Seal of the Prophets. ’ They also said: ‘We shall not accept any Sign unless we are shown a Sign in our own lives. We do not believe in the Qur’an and we do not know what Prophethood is and what faith is and we deny all that. ’ Then I called on my Lord in humility and in earnestness and stretched out my hands to Him in supplication and He vouchsafed to me the revelation: 227 And God informed me and said: 228 227 [Arabic] I shall show them a Sign from their own selves. [Publishers] 228 [Arabic] I shall make one of their daughters a Sign for them. [Publishers]