Tadhkirah — Page 888
888 towns? 1075 And they will ask you: ‘Whence have you obtained this status; this is but a stratagem that you people have joined together to devised [in the city]. 1076 These people look at you but do not see you. Tell them: If you love Allah, then follow me, so that Allah may also love you. God has descended to have mercy upon you. If you again return to mischief We shall also return to your chastisement. And We have made hell a prison for the disbelievers. And We have sent you as a mercy for the universe. Tell them: Carry on, in your places in your way and I shall continue to carry on in my way. Then soon will you see whom God helps. Not the smallest particle of a deed can be accepted without righteousness. Allah is with those who are righteous and with those who are engaged in doing good deeds. Say: If I have invented it, my sin is on me. And I have already lived a whole lifetime among you before this, then do you not understand? Is Allah not sufficient for His servant. We shall make him a Sign for people and a sample of mercy and that is a matter already determined since eternity. This is the matter which you doubted. Peace be on you, you have been blessed. You are blessed in this world and in the Hereafter. 1075 That is, this claimant of being the Promised Rejuvenator belongs to a small village of Punjab. Why was not the Promised Rejuvenator raised in Mecca or Medina, the centres of Islam. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 82 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 85] 1076 The translation of this revelation in H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , (First Edition) does not include the word ‘in the city’. [Syed Abdul Hayee]