On 15 July 1901 the Promised Messiah, on whom be peace and blessings, was summoned by the court on the request of the defence to give testimony in relation to the suit that was filed against Mirza Nizam-ud-Din and others who closed off the public passage leading to the mosque. There is a very large canal enroute to Gurdaspur and at one point it splits off into two directions. In my travelogue, I have named this place Majma-ul-Bahrayn (the junction of the two waters). Those friends who had gone on horse carriage reached here first and so they waited for His Holiness, on whom be peace and blessings, to arrive. After a wait of about a half hour or so, the entourage of His Holiness (as) arrived as well. His Holiness (as) gave instructions that everyone should eat, so the spread was laid out and all of our friends ate together. At that time, certain discussions took place. His Holiness (as) said: “God Almighty Himself supports a righteous person. It does not behove a believer to engage in schemes.”
On the request of Maulana Maulvi Muhammad Ali Sahib, His Holiness (as) stayed at the magnificent home of Munshi Nabi Bakhsh Sahib, Chieftain of Gurdaspur, who was the father-in-law of Maulvi Sahib. Discussions arose about the court case and someone said that the opposing party has planned to engage in a very improper line of questioning. The Promised Messiah (as) said: “I do not care about this in the least. The hand of a believer is always above others.
يَدُ اللهِ فَوْقَ اَيْدِيْهِمْ
The hand of Allah is over their hands.
The machinations of the disbelievers are always overturned and thrown back upon them. The Holy Quran states:
مَكَرُوْا وَ مَكَرَ اللهُ وَ اللهُ خَيْرُ الْمٰكِرِيْنَ1
They planned, and Allah also planned; and Allah is the Best of planners.
I know very well that these people harbour personal enmity and malice against me, and the reason for this is because I have been divinely appointed to refute and overcome the false religions of the world. I know for a fact and my heart gives the same verdict—and this is no exaggeration at all—that the passion which I possess to refute and rebut these false religions is so great that if all the Muslims on the face of the earth were put on one side of a scale and I was put on the other side all alone, my scale would outweigh the others. When so great is my zeal to prove the falsity of the Aryas, the Christians and other Faiths, if it was not I against whom these people harboured malice, then who else would it be? Their animosity is no different than that of animals. Three days ago I received the revelation:
اِنِّیْ مَعَ الْاَفْوَاجِ اٰتِیْکَ بَغْتَۃً
I shall come to you suddenly with My hosts.
To my amazement, I have received this revelation many times, and this is generally when I am faced with court cases. The word ‘hosts’ demonstrates that in the opposing camp there are grand and elaborate schemes, and also that there is a large group of people working against me, because the vehemence of God is never personal in nature. Even in exacting retribution, an overwhelming spirit of mercy remains prevalent. Therefore, when it is with hosts that God comes, this clearly establishes that armies stand on the opposing end as well. Until our opponents reach an extreme in their passion for revenge, the divine power of retribution does not surge forth from God Almighty either.”
1 Aal-e-Imran, 3:55