The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 125
Extraordinary Renown and Divine Succour 125 from Alif to Yā i. e. , from Abu-Bakr to Yazīd. But these people who are called Ahl-e-Hadith or Ḥanafi seem to regard the work of the Shias as incomplete. In order to complete the circle of curse-mongering, they hurled abuse at the one whom God has pronounced as 'the manifestation of all the Prophets' from Adam to. Yesu Masiḥ from Alif to Yā-and then God had completed the circle from Alif back to Alif, by making him the perfect manifestation of the attributes of all Prophets, from Adamas to Aḥmadsa. 36 وَسَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنْقَلَبٍ يَنْقَلِبُونَ *. But they must remember that all the abuse that issues from their mouths, and the insults that dwell upon their lips, and the filthy papers which they publish in opposition to the truth, all this furnishes the material for their spiritual chastisement which they have prepared with their own hands. No life is more cursed than the one spent in lying. Do they imagine that by their designs, their baseless lies, their allegations, their ridicule and their mockery, they can frustrate the. Will of God? Or can they, by deceiving the world, put on hold what God has willed in heaven? If ever in the past the opponents of truth succeeded through these means, then they too shall succeed, but when it is an established fact that those who oppose God, and oppose the purpose which He has willed in heaven, are always humiliated and defeated, then there must come a day when these people too shall meet with defeat 36 And the wrongdoers will soon know to what place of return they shall return. Al-Shu'arā', 26:228 [Publisher]