The Descent of the Messiah — Page 58
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH It is worth mentioning here that I experience God's mirac- ulous power in relation to myself particularly when I put pen to paper, because when I write something in Arabic or Urdu, I feel as if someone is instructing me from within. All my writings, whether in Arabic, Urdu or Persian, fall into two categories: (1) The first is whereby the flow of words and meanings ap- pears before me with great ease and I keep writing it down. Even though I do not have to put much effort into it, such writing is not much beyond my own mental capacity. That is to say, the words and the meanings are such that, even if I were not blessed with God's special support, it would still have been possible for me to write it with the help of God's minimal grace that always accompanies human nature, albeit after expending a great deal of time and effort. God knows best. (2) The second category of my writing is purely miraculous in nature. ¹ For instance, when I write something in Arabic and re- quire a word that I do not know, Divine revelation guides me and the Holy Spirit places that word in my heart in the form of verbal revelation and causes it to flow from my tongue, and in that mo- ment I am not completely conscious. For instance, once, when I was writing in Arabic, I needed a word that would be the exact translation of bisyari ayal )2(بسیاری عیال. I did not know the word but I needed it for my writing. Then, all of a sudden, the word 1 I have often been guided to certain medicines through revelation for the treatment of particular ailments, regardless of whether they were already documented in the works of Galen or Hippocrates. The same is observed in my writing. I do not care in the least if the passages I receive from God in my support are also found in some other book; for me and for everyone who knows me, they are a miracle. If someone does not consider them a miracle, then it is not permissible for him even to drink water until he com- petes against me under the conditions already publicised. (Author) 2 Bisyari ayal )بسیار عال means a large family. [Publisher[ 58