The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 379
Repeated Challenges 379 He certainly helps the accepted one and makes His ac- ceptance of him manifest in a manner that is beyond hu- man power. Since you claim to be in the right, and some of you like Maulavi Mohy-ud-Din and 'Abd-ur-Rahmān Şahib of Lakhoke and Miān 'Abd-ul-Haq Şahib of Ghaznī have denounced me as a disbeliever and as one condemned to hell, it is incumbent upon you to find out through this heavenly method who is designated as the accepted one in heaven and who is the rejected one. I agree that you should supplicate to the Judge of judges for a period of ten weeks that if you are in the right you should be given a sign of your truth or you should be au- thorized to make a great prophecy or granted a sign as can proceed only from the righteous. On my side I shall also do the same. God the Beneficent and the Powerful has assured me that, if you accept this challenge, victory will be mine. . . . Whatever belonged to us, belong now to the Beloved; Today, we belong to the Beloved, and He belongs to us. Thanks be to Allah, we found that Priceless Ruby; It matters not if the nation's hearts have turned to stone. [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 457-458] If those among Muslims who are called hermits, religious elders and sufis continue to persist in their denial of my claim and do not accept the truth that I am the Promised Messiah, then there is an easy way of settling the issue between us. Let a person who does not accept this claim of mine, and considers himself a recipient of revelation, call me to a meeting at Batāla, Amritsar or Lahore, and we should both supplicate the Divine that a grand sign, which is beyond human power and above the manipula- tion of normal human capacity, may be manifested within the period of one year in support of the one of us