The Descent of the Messiah — Page 330
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH constitutes a sign in the eyes of our opponents. ¹ The second cause of Muhammad Hassan's death is the proph- ecy written on the title page of I'jāzul-Masih: مَنْ قَامَ لِلْجَوَابِ وَتَنَمَّرَ - فَسَوْفَ يَرَى أَنَّهُ تَقَدَّمَ وَتَذَمَّرَ - Meaning, "Whoever tries to answer this book and shows ag- gression will soon find that he has been frustrated in this task and is full of self-reproach. ” Can there be greater frustration than that Muhammad Hassan died without fulfilling his intention of writing an Arabic rebuttal to an Arabic book and could not even have it published? The third cause of Muhammad Hassan's death was the mubāhalah prayer written on page 199 of I jāzul-Masīḥ. The fourth cause of the death of Muhammad Hassan is the Di- vine revelation that has long been published in the world: إِنِّي مُهِينٌ مَنْ أَرَادَاهَا نَتَكَ Meaning, "I shall humiliate him who desires to humiliate you. " Since he intended to humiliate me by raising his pen against Ijāzul-Masīḥ, God disgraced him. Having asked for death with his own tongue, he died within a few days and left his death as a sign for us. All praise belongs to Allah for this. (Author) 1 The same happened to Muhay-ud-Deen Lakhukhewala when he published the revelation, "Mirza Sahib the Pharaoh". I had informed him in a letter which was written in August 1894, prior to his death, that he would meet his end just like the Pharaoh in front of this Moses. While he was still alive, the letter was published in Al-Haqq of Sialkot. Then, as a demonstration of this sign, the same letter was published after his death, along with the date of his death, on July 24, 1901, in Al-Hakam of Qadian. See Al-Hakam, July 24, 1901, page 5, columns two and three. (Author) 330