Arba'in — Page 71
Number Three 71 and fabrication and inviting to kufr [disbelief ], he wanted to bring about destruction by causing death through misguidance, so his dying was better than the occurrence of spiritual death of the whole world through his fabricated teachings. For this rea- son it has indeed always been Our practice that We destroy that very person who presents to the world the paths of destruction and desires to bring about the spiritual death of God’s creation by presenting false teachings and false beliefs and commits inso- lence by fabricating lies against God. Now, it is perfectly clear from these verses that Allah the Exalted presents this argument in favour of the truth of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that if he were not from Us, then We would have destroyed him and he could certainly not have remained alive even if you people had tried to save him. However, Ha fi z Sahib does not accept this argument. He says that the sum total duration of wa hi [revela- tion] for the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be on him, was twenty-three years, and I can show people who lived longer than this duration, who made false claims to prophethood, and messengership, and who—despite uttering lies and commit- ting slander against God—remained alive for longer than twen- ty-three years. Thus, for Ha fi z Sahib this reasoning of the Holy Quran is false and meaningless, and through it the truth of the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be on him, cannot be proven. Nevertheless, it is strange that the late Maulaw i Rahmatullah and the late Maulaw i Syed A l-e-Hasan had presented this very argument to the Reverend Pfander in their books Iz a la-e-Auh a m