Second Part—Comprising a Statement of the Revelations Concerning Babu Ilahi Bakhsh, the Accountant, That God Almighty Revealed to Me

When Babu Ilahi Bakhsh compiled his book ‘Asa-e-Musa, the sole intent of the compilation was to denounce me as Pharaoh and to claim his very self as Musa [Moses]. He repeatedly wrote: ‘I receive the revelation from God that this man’—meaning me—‘is a chronic liar, dajjal [deceiver], and an impostor.’ It was then that after reading his book, I wrote the following lines as a footnote in the booklet Arba‘in Number 4. It contains a prophecy and a prayer, which is as follows:

How sad that he (i.e. Babu Ilahi Bakhsh) has not at all feared the woeful warning contained in the verse:

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Nor has he paid any heed to the verse:

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He repeatedly writes about me: ‘He has assured me that on account of my false accusations he will not sue me in a human court of law.’ I say in response that not only shall I not sue you in any human court of law but I also do not wish to sue you in the court of the Divine. However, since you have levelled categorically false and shameful charges against me and—despite my innocence—caused me deep pain, I certainly do not believe that my Almighty God will cause me to die before exonerating- me from all the fals charnges and proving you to be the liar. [Beware! Verily, the curse of Allah is upon the liars]. It was about this that I received the following definite and categorical revelation on Thursday, 11 December 1900.3

Your pain-filled supplications have reached heaven,
Then be not surprised if I should give you hopeful news. After eleven, if God Almighty so wills.

In any case, during this period, a Sign will appear for my exoneration that will cause great humiliation to you. Do not ridicule the Word of God. Mountains move, rivers can dry up, seasons change, but the Word of God does not change, until it is completely fulfilled.

Similarly, the following revelation about Babu Ilahi Bakhsh is recorded on page 19 of my book, Arba‘in, Number 4:

Meaning that, Babu Ilahi Bakhsh wishes to see your menstruation or come to know of some other filth or defilement, but God, on the other hand, will shower His bounties upon you, which shall be perpetual. You do not have menstruation, but you do have a child—a child who is at the status of the children of God.

In other words, menstruation is something impure, but a child’s body grows out of it. Similarly, when man surrenders to God then all the filth and defilement, which is part and parcel of human nature, is transformed into a spiritual body. This menstruation becomes the cause of human progress. This is the basis for the saying of the mystics: ‘Had there been no sin, human beings could have made no spiritual progress.’ The same was the cause of Adam’s progress. This is why every Prophet, keeping in view the hidden shortcomings, kept invoking istighfar [seeking forgiveness], and the same fear has always been the cause of all kinds of progress. God says:

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Thus, every son of man inherently contains the impurity of menstruation within him, but that very menstruation prepares the body of a pure and clean child for the one who sincerely turns to God. This is why those who lose themselves in God are called the children of God. However, this does not mean that they are literally God’s sons. It would be sheer blasphemy to say so; for, God is Holy and has no sons. But they have been called ‘children of God’ only as a figure of speech since, like an innocent child, they keep on remembering God with utmost zeal. Indicating the same spiritual station, the Holy Quran says:

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Meaning that, remember God with such love and heartfelt compassion as a child remembers its father.

This is why God has been addressed as Ab or Pita [meaning ‘Father’] in the scriptures of every people. Figuratively speaking, God has a resemblance to a mother also and just as a mother rears her child in the womb, so are the beloveds of God nourished in the lap of God’s love. They are granted a holy body out of a filthy origin. This is why the auliya’ [friends of Allah] are called ‘children of God’ by the mystics. It is only a figure of speech. Otherwise, God has no children, and God is:

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And, in the above-mentioned revelations, the sentence:

Means that We will put out the fire of mischief publicly lit by Babu Ilahi Bakhsh with his book. The death of Babu Ilahi Bakhsh has fulfilled all these prophecies. [Allah be praised for all this].

The second prophecy regarding the death of Babu Ilahi Bakhsh is the one that, having been conveyed by Allah the Exalted on 15 March 1907, has been published in Badr and in Al-Hakam and it is as follows:

[There is a Musa whom I shall make manifest and upon whom I shall bestow honour in the eyes of people. But he who has sinned against Me I shall drag him and shall show him Hell. My Signs shall be manifested. My enemy has been ruined, i.e. will be ruined. He is now accountable to God.]

Here, God named me Musa in the same way He had called me Musa in many places in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya some twenty-six years ago. In short, the revelation says that in the present age there is only one Musa and not two. Anyone who claims to be the second Musa is a liar. Then He said that the time has now come that I should make the Musa who has been raised by Me, manifest and grant him honour in the eyes of the people, but I shall drag him who has sinned against Me; namely, he who parades as Musa under false pretences. In other words, I shall humiliate him and cause him to die an ignominious death; I shall make him behold ‘Hell’. In other words, he will contract the plague and die.

This prophecy, with all its details, emanated from God Almighty, because at the time Babu Ilahi Bakhsh was the lone contender who claimed to be Musa in opposition to me and whom God caused to die of the plague. Prior to his illness and death, this revelation of God was widely published among thousands through Badr and Al-Hakam. In the end, it happened exactly as it had been announced. Bear in mind that in all my prophecies, by ‘Hell’ is meant the plague. It was a great prophecy which had announced beforehand that Babu Ilahi Bakhsh would die of the plague.

By way of example, I would like to mention that in the context of all the revelations received by me, ‘Hell’ stands for the plague and a long time ago I received a revelation which has since been published along with its explanation in Badr and Al-Hakam, which is as follows:

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This was interpreted to mean that a time will come when not even a single person shall be left in this country who would be suffering from the plague. By and large, God will deliver the people from this affliction. There is yet another revelation, according to which by ‘fire’ is meant the plague. This revelation also was published a long time ago. It is as follows:

Do not threaten us with fire; for fire is my servant and indeed the servant of my servants.

Meaning that not only will I remain safe from the plague, but also those whose love for me is genuine and perfect.

Finally, a fair-minded person ought to closely consider two points in the context of Babu Ilahi Bakhsh’s case.

The first point worth considering is that when Babu Ilahi Bakhsh turned away from me and began telling his friends his revelations against me, in denial of my truth, what did I request to be done in settlement of the matter? That request of mine is written on pages 5 and 6 of his book ‘Asa-e-Musa and readers can read it to see that in reality my request was for a mubahalah, or in other words, it was a sincere heartfelt prayer to the Glorious God to settle the matter. The relevant part of this is reproduced below and is as follows:

I seek a heavenly decision; or, in other words, it is my desire that people may follow the right path after recognizing the person who, in reality, is the one who can benefit them and is, in fact, the Imam sent by God Almighty. And who is it that until now has acquired this knowledge as to who he is? That is known to God Himself, or to those who have been granted spiritual insight by God. Therefore, this arrangement has been made (namely that the Babu should publish all his revelations relating to my being false that he has received). Thus, if the revelations of Munshi Sahib are truly from God Almighty then those revelations that he has received concerning me will manifest some miraculous Sign of their authenticity (meaning that thereafter I shall without fail suffer some affliction and destruction). And thus the people, who merit mercy, will be saved from an extravagant ‘impostor’. (That is to say, since Babu [Ilahi Bakhsh] considers me an impostor and says that I have lied in the name of God by claiming to be the Promised Messiah, I shall perish.) But if there is something to the contrary in the knowledge of God Almighty against this ill thought about me, it will become manifest. (Meaning, in other words, that if in the knowledge of God Almighty, I am indeed the Promised Messiah, He will testify to it on my behalf.) For my part, I hereby undertake neither to sue you in any court of law—God forbid—nor shall I mount any baseless attack on your honour and prestige.

I shall seek the solution to this dispute from God alone. (In other words, I shall desire that if I am not an impostor and the attack on me is false and unjustified, I be granted acquittal. As for Babu Sahib’s falsehood, God may Himself cause something to descend. To seek acquittal from God is the way of the Prophets, as was done by Hadrat Yusuf [Joseph].

Furthermore, it has been the practice of God from the beginning to acquit the truthful.8

This is the letter of mine which is recorded on pages 5, 6, and 7 of Babu Sahib’s book ‘Asa-e-Musa. It is obvious that in this letter I had also sought a decision from God Almighty, and the verdict that God Almighty gave thereafter is obvious. On the one hand, He granted me great progress, while on the other, He caused Babu Ilahi Bakhsh to die in a state of utter frustration. He died of plague and left this world with a multitude of disappointments and dismay. Did he desire in his heart that he should die of the plague and then for that to happen during my lifetime? Nonetheless, God Almighty caused it to happen in this manner.

The second point worth considering for fair-minded readers is that Babu Ilahi Bakhsh published the corpus of his revelations against me that he had collected over a period of one year in his book ‘Asa-e-Musa. The sum and substance of these revelations was that I would die of the plague in a state of utter helplessness and frustration in the very life of Babu Sahib and that great suffering and destruction would visit me on account of the evil effect of the mula‘anah [invoking mutual curse] and the mubahalah. But against all this, Babu Sahib would prosper and God would grant him a long life and he would see all this destruction that I would suffer with his own eyes and he would be granted lands and gardens, and a whole world would turn to him.

These revelations that Babu Sahib published against me cover a period of about one year. The revelations that he had received for about six years after this, i.e. until the time of his death, were held back by him for some unknown expediency. Otherwise, it is evident that a person who receives so many revelations in one year must have received many more over a period of as many as six years. But now, I do not think these revelations will ever be published; for, as I have always heard, they were all about my failure and my suffering chastisement. Now, as God Almighty has given His judgment, why would his friends publish such revelations? In fact, they would have hastened to consign them to flames. And if they were not burnt then Munshi ‘Abdul-Haqq, who was his foremost friend, should state under oath whether the flow of revelations had completely ceased after the publication of ‘Asa-e-Musa, to the extent that he did not receive even a single revelation for six years. If only the remaining revelations had also been published, it would have demonstrated the truth even further.

Those who have come into obstinate opposition against me on account of their own selfish motives, will never follow the path which would reveal the truth. God, however, shall not relent until He makes truth manifest. If I am a liar and an impostor, then my end will be the same as Babu Ilahi Bakhsh’s end, but if the Lord of Honour and Glory is with me He will not let me die in a manner that I am engulfed by the curse of God. This is so because His age-old practice, in relation to the truthful, is that He never lets them be destroyed. Although, during their interim period, people might, on account of their ignorance, raise objections and find fault with those who are truthful, but, ultimately, God makes their acquittal manifest. In fact, this sightless world has never spared any of the Prophets.

The Jews still insist that not a single prophecy of Hadrat ‘Isa [Jesus] has ever been fulfilled. He claimed to be a king but remained without a kingdom. He promised Judas Iscariot a throne in Heaven, but this promise too was not fulfilled. Then he foretold that his second coming would take place during those very days, but that proved false also. Such are the objections that the Jews and the disbelievers raise against Hadrat ‘Isa, and the Christians raise [similar objections] against the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. It was therefore necessary that they be raised against me, but, God has supported me with thousands of Signs in a way that very few of the earlier Prophets were supported. Even then, those whose hearts are sealed do not, in the least, benefit from the Signs9 of God.

For Babu Ilahi Bakhsh’s friends this constituted a bright Sign that though Babu Sahib, in his book ‘Asa-e-Musa repeatedly mentioned his revelations that I would die of the torment of plague during his own lifetime and would suffer destruction and decline, yet God treated me in a manner quite contrary to his revelations and consoled me with His prophecies that He would make me triumph and would make my truth manifest. It is noteworthy that Babu Ilahi Bakhsh had published his revelations in ‘Asa-e-Musa in very harsh terms saying that God Almighty had rejected me and God says that: ‘I will make him die of the plague in utter destruction, humility, and failure.’ Thereafter, God, who is so jealous for the sake of His servants, consoled me with His revelations for six consecutive years in opposition to Babu Ilahi Bakhsh’s so-called ‘revelations’. He not only continued to console me but also continued to show mighty Signs. The prophecies concerning the support and succour of God Almighty are, in fact, of two kinds.

1. Prophecies that are recorded in my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and certain others which were published later. These prophecies precede Babu Ilahi Bakhsh’s book ‘Asa-e-Musa by a number of years.

2. Prophecies that were published after the publication of ‘Asa-e-Musa until the death of Babu Ilahi Bakhsh. Babu Sahib after compiling ‘Asa-e-Musa became silent about the publication of his ‘revelations’, but during these six years following [the publication of ‘Asa-e- Musa], God Almighty vouchsafed to me hundreds of prophecies which continued to be published in the magazine the Review of Religions and the newspapers Badr and Al-Hakam of Qadian and in the booklets that were published from time to time after the publication of ‘Asa-e-Musa. They are also incorporated in my book Haqiqatul-Wahi.

In short, these six years which began with the publication of ‘Asa-e- Musa and ended with the death of Babu Sahib were not uneventful. Divine revelations kept pouring like rain. The sum and substance of these revelations is that addressing me God Almighty said:

I will enrich you with My bounties, and many of your opponents will be destroyed in your lifetime. Their houses will be laid waste, and they will die in a state of utter helplessness and disappointment. I will humiliate him who seeks to humiliate you because I have ordained that My Messengers shall prevail in the end. I will safeguard all those who dwell in your house from the plague and the shock of earthquake,10 and you will see how I deal with the wrongdoers. I will cause to descend such a decree from heaven as will please you and in the end it is you indeed who will be victorious. I will demonstrate your truthfulness with powerful assaults. I Myself will fight with your enemies. I shall stand by you and shall rebuke the one who rebukes you. They desire to extinguish the light of Allah. Take note, surely the party of Allah shall ultimately prevail. Be not afraid at all, for I shall make you prevail. We shall send down to you many mysteries from heaven and shall break your opponents into pieces and shall show Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts that which they are afraid of. Thus, grieve not, for your Lord lies in wait for them. Allah will not leave you nor separate Himself from you until He has caused the pure to be distinguished from the impure. No Prophet has been sent into the world whose enemies were not humiliated by God. We shall deliver you from the evil designs of your enemies. We shall make you prevail. I shall grant you honour in the world in such a manner as will be a source of wonderment. I shall comfort you and shall not uproot you and shall raise a great nation from you. I shall show very great Signs for you and shall demolish the structures built by your opponents; meaning, their designs and schemes shall be destroyed. You are that Revered Messiah whose time shall not be wasted. A jewel like you cannot go to waste. You have a high standing in heaven and among those who possess sight. Allah will safeguard you against the evil of your enemies and will grant you all that you desire and God will attack those who attack you because they have transgressed the bounds. God will descend with a drawn sword in order to destroy the enemy and his resources. Peace be upon you from the Merciful God. He will make a distinction between you and the wrongdoers. Say to them: ‘I am the truthful so wait for my Signs.’ On that day the matter will be settled and there will be clear victory. We shall take away that burden which had well-nigh broken your back. We shall cut off the roots of the transgressors. They desire that your affair should remain incomplete, but Allah does not intend to leave you until the completion of all of your affairs. God will walk ahead of you and will declare your enemy to be His enemy. He will be wroth with the one with whom you are wroth and will love the one you love. Those who are accepted of God exhibit Signs and evidence of such acceptance. They are revered by kings and mighty ones and are called princes of peace. I shall destroy fourteen beasts11 because they had transgressed the limits. I shall be victorious, and I shall prevail. And I will allow those who benefit people to endure. You shall be granted a dominance that shall be praised. God is the Enemy of a liar and will convey him to Hell. There is a Musa whom I shall make manifest and upon whom I shall bestow honour in the eyes of people, but I shall drag him who has sinned against Me and shall show him Hell. My enemy has been ruined. He is now accountable to God; meaning, he shall be destroyed. O Moon! O Sun! You are from Me and I am from you. Soon God will bestow upon you such reward as will please you.

These are the revelations which I received from God Almighty in a period of six years following the publication of ‘Asa-e-Musa. These revelations began from that time and relate to the period before the death of Babu Sahib. The worthy readers should now, on their own, compare the revelations contained in ‘Asa-e-Musa and the above-mentioned revelations of mine and tell whether my revelations were proven true or the revelations of Babu Ilahi Bakhsh. For a reasonable person, this comparison should suffice. This alone can distinguish a truthful one from one who is false but if there is no sincerity in one’s intentions then God Almighty shall Himself determine his case.