Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 257
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 17 257 as many as thirty dajjāls will appear. They fail to realize that if thirty dajjāls were to come, then, according to this measure, there should have come thirty Messiahs as well-one for every dajjal. What a travesty that thirty dajjāls did appear, but there has not been a single Messiah. How unfortunate is this ummah that it only has dajjāls in its lot and it is yet to see the face of a true Messiah, whereas hundreds of Prophets appeared among the Israelite dispensation. In short, is it righteousness to criticize a Movement in which God raised people as truthful as Abdul-Latif, the martyr, who were bestowed with revelation from God, who sacrificed their lives in this path, and who testified to my truth on the basis of the revelation received from God? How can a pious and righteous scholar show such loving fervour for an impostor? کس بہر کسے سرند ید جان نفشاند عشق است که این کار بصد صدق کناند No one dies or lays down his life for anyone else. It is love [alone] that compels a person to perform this task with the utmost sincerity. عشق است که بر خاک مذلت غلطاند عشق است که در آتش سوزان بنشاند It is love that makes one sit in the raging fire. It is love that makes one wallow in the dust of humiliation. بے عشق دلے پاک شود من نپذیرم عشق است کریں دام بیکدم برهاند I do not believe that a heart could be purified without love. It is love that hastens to rescue [us] from this [mundane] snare. Şahibzādah Maulawi 'Abdul-Latif, the martyr, testified to the truth with his own blood [as is said[ الْإِسْتِقَامَةُ فَوْقَ الْكَرَامَةِ ]‘Steadfastness has a higher status than a miracle'], but the practice of most of the ulema of today is that they are wont to alter their fatwas [edicts] for a paltry couple of rupees. They speak not out of the fear of God, but under the upsurge of their ego. On the contrary, 'Abdul-Latif, the blessed