The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 165
Miscellaneous Signs 165 Charāgh Din continuously received satanic revela- tions to the effect that I was Dajjal [the Antichrist] and that he himself had been commissioned by God to annihilate this Dajjal, and that Jesus had given him his own sceptre to kill him, his arrogance knew no bounds. He wrote a book entitled Mināratul Masih in which he stressed again and again that I was, in fact, the promised Dajjal. A year after the publication of Mināratul Masīh, he wrote another book to prove that I was the Dajjal, and continued to remind people that I was the same Dajjal whose advent has been foretold in Hadith. Since the hour of Divine wrath upon him had drawn near, he included in the second book the prayer of mubāhala, and supplicated before God for my destruction. After denouncing me as 'a mischief- maker', he prayed to God that He may rid the world of my 'mischief". It is a marvellous manifestation of Divine power, as well as a warning, that when he had handed over the piece of writing concerning mubā- hala to the scribe, and even before it could be placed on the lithographic plates, both his sons died of the plague. Finally, on 4th April, 1901, only two or three days after the death of his sons, he too contracted the plague and departed from this world, thus making it clear to the people who was the truthful one, and who was the liar. Those who were present at the time of his death report him as having said, "Now even God has turned against me. " [Haqiqat-ul-Wahī, Rūbānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, p. 387]