Epilogue to Haqiqatul-Wahi

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After finishing this book, such important facts became known, the inclusion of which into this book is necessary for the completion of this book. Those issues are discussed in what follows:

1. The mubahalah [prayer duel] with Charagh Din of Jammu has already been recorded in this book. Although it is a Sign by deliberating over which alone, a person who submits to the demands of reason, justice, and honesty, and who does not abandon the course of piety, can realize that I am from God and that I am in the right; nevertheless, the doubt could cross the mind of a sceptic that since Charagh Din had already died of the plague, this mubahalah might not have been from him, and the text of the mubahalah might have been composed on my own after his death.
   I, therefore, postponed the publication of this book until Charagh Din’s heirs or friends published his book which contains the text of this mubahalah. So, by the grace and compassion of Allah the Exalted, their hearts were moved to publish that book which contains the essay of the mubahalah and then they published that book in a matter of a few weeks and they named that book I‘jaz-e-Muhammadi.
   The most gratifying part of this is that, despite their intense opposition, they could not remove the essay of the mubahalah from the book I‘jaz-e-Muhammadi. It appears that Charagh Din had, while he was still alive, publicly expressed his intention of writing an essay by way of a mubahalah so that the one who is a liar should perish.
   With great audacity and arrogance, he had labelled me a dajjal and had alleged in his book Minaratul-Masih [‘The Minaret of the Messiah’] that I was none other than the promised Dajjal who was to come. He had further written that, during a dream, Hadrat ‘Isa(as) [Jesus] had given a staff to him so that with this staff he could kill this Dajjal. Then, once he wrote the wording of the mubahalah in his book I‘jaz-e- Muhammadi, soon after its compilation, he contracted the plague. Although he was unable to publish his book within his lifetime, he had explicitly announced his intention to enter into the mubahalah and had shown the text of the mubahalah to a number of people.
   Moreover, he had submitted the article to the scribe for transcription. his is why his friends, despite their intense opposition, could not muster the courage to expunge the text of the mubahalah from the book. In actual fact, this was an act of Allah the Exalted that He prevented those people from realizing that the publication of the text concerning the mubahalah would prove that Charagh Din was a liar, because when Charagh Din handed over the text of the mubahalah to the scribe for transcription, both his sons—for there were only two—contracted the plague and died that very same day.
   Furthermore, that text had not yet been transferred to the stone slab (for printing) when Charagh Din himself, by falling victim to the plague, delivered the verdict on the dispute between the two of us with his own death. In short, the text of the mubahalah had become a well-known incident. This is why his friends published it nonetheless as part of the book I‘jaz-e-Muhammadi. When that text had been printed, we also purchased several copies of that book so that people would know that the text of the Mubahalah that we had published as part of our book Haqiqatul-Wahi is exactly from this very Charagh Din.
   Although all this was sufficient evidence for public satisfaction, I felt that if we could get the original mubahalah text which was written by Charagh Din’s own hand, and then take a photo of it, this evidence would have added lustre. Great effort was made for this objective and in the end, after the publication of the book, we were able to obtain not only that text, but also the entire manuscript of the book from the scribe of I‘jaz-e-Muhammadi. After this, I tried to have a photo taken of this text in some way. To this end, through the efforts of brother Maulawi Muhammad ‘Ali M.A., letters were written to the publishing houses in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras where photos of written manuscripts are taken.
   Although very high rates were quoted for making the photocopy—fifty rupees per page—we agreed to everything. This was the very reason why the publication of the book Haqiqatul- Wahi was delayed so much. In the end, with the grace of God Almighty, we succeeded in taking the image of that manuscript. Therefore, that image has been included in this epilogue.3 The original writing of Charagh Din which is the text of the mubahalah, indeed the whole book in the handwriting of Charagh Din, is safe in our possession and whoever wishes to see it may do so, but for anyone who recognizes Charagh Din’s handwriting, it is not necessary to see the signed manuscript of Charagh Din which is in our possession; rather, he would be satisfied by seeing its image.

2. The second point worthy of being recorded in this epilogue comprises those few prophecies which were fulfilled after the book Haqiqatul-Wahi was finished. There is also a prophecy which is a Sign belonging to the past. I did not remember to record it at the time of writing the other Signs. This is why it is now recorded in the epilogue. It is a great Sign of which many of the most vehement enemies and opponents of the author are witnesses. Therefore, I thought it proper that I should record this Sign too along with those Signs in the epilogue. They are as follows: