The Descent of the Messiah — Page 329
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS overtook him so quickly, the answer is that this happened for three reasons. The first is that in these notes he asked for his own death, as he wrote on the book with his own hand: لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَذِبِينَ ]May the curse of Allah be upon the liars]. The notes in which he has cursed the false one among the two of us are before me at this moment. These are the same notes, based on the testimony of five witnesses, that he had written with his own pen on Ijāzul-Masih and Shamsul-Bāzigha. The original notes, whose copy his father handed over to these witnesses, are present in his home,¹ and they are a strong indication of his mubāhalah which, like the Cloak of Baba Nanak, will bear testimony throughout the ages. As for the mubāhalah, after which he did not live even for two weeks, it is an answer from God to those who said that they would only accept a mubāhalah whose result would take no more than two or three weeks. I am now waiting to see whether or not they acknowledge this sign. What a marvel that Muhammad Hassan died after the mubāhalah! The same oc- cured with Ghulam Dastagir of Qasur. He, too, wrote a book in rebuttal to mine and named it Fath Rahmānī and, in a fit of passion, wrote a prayer on page twenty seven, to the effect that, "O God, destroy the person who is a great liar and is uttering falsehood and deviating from the truth. Amin. ” Not a month had passed after he wrote this book when he himself died. His book, Fatah Rahmānī, is available in print. See pages twenty six and twenty seven, and fear God. These two men are from the Punjab and they died after invoking the mubāhalah with their own tongues. If this is not a sign, then I do not know what 1 Thereafter, we also obtained through Muhammad Hassan's son, the origi- nal notes, i. e. handwritten notes of Muhammad Hassan himself. (Author) 329