The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 692
SHAIKH MEHR ALI, CHIEF OF HOSHIARPUR Ṣāḥib to return my letter in which the news about the acquittal had been conveyed, but he did not return my letter and in his letter of 19 June 1892, he stated that the letter had been lost. However, at the same time he quoted his son as saying that: 'We do not recall the news about acquittal. ' But the wording of the letter was either these words or something close to it that the grace of God would descend; prayer is being made. *1 That is where things stood and I still have that letter of Shaikh Sahib. But I have now learned from the letters and state- ments of some friends that Shaikh Ṣāḥib is claiming that he was not at all informed of the acquittal. Moreover, he is raising a clamour that I knew that I had not written a letter, so then I asked Shaikh Ṣāḥib to tell a lie and make a false statement that I had given him information about his acquittal. This is tanta- mount to saying that I wrote him a letter saying that although it is not true that I had informed you of an acquittal, but please do me a favour and say so, to show my miraculous Sign. I was intensely grieved to learn about this attitude of Shaikh Surely, to Allah we belong and surely to] إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَجِعُونَ. Sahib Him do we return]. God Almighty knows that Shaikh Ṣāḥib was certainly informed about the initial and final events about him, and both these prophecies are true and a letter was sent to Shaikh Sahib about both of them, and the same letter or confir- mation of its contents was asked to be returned. 691 1. My humble self did not use the words: prayer is being made. Rather, I said that I prayed for him a lot. At the end, reassurance of Divine grace and deliverance was conveyed in a few words which were quite definitive. God Almighty does not depend upon anybody and is not like the flatterers. Most of His glad tidings are conveyed in indications. His saying 'yes' or 'no' is more reliable than hundreds of tomes written by others, but the ignorant and proud materialists wish that God Almighty would make long speeches like obedient servants so that they may believe and consider the matter to be definitive. (Author)