The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 39
Miracles, Signs and Prophecies 39 sayers who would foretell matters relating to the unseen. Satīḥ was one of them. But there is a world of difference between the soothsayer's conjectural knowledge of the unseen, and the knowledge that is revealed to the Messengers of Allāh, and to those who receive. Divine revelations. . . . The fourth sign is about the profundities and subtleties of the Holy Quran. The verities of the Holy Quran cannot be disclosed to anyone but to him who is purified. لَا يَمَسُّةَ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ " (Part 27). I have repeatedly asked my opponents to write a commentary on a Chapter of the Holy Quran. I will do the same and then the two may be compared. But no one has dared to take up this challenge. [Malfūzāt, vol. 1, pp. 182-183]. These prophecies are such that they will move a righteous person to tears, and yet people persist in claiming that none of them has been fulfilled. They do not seem to realize that even they have to die one day. If the signs that have been shown to them had been shown to the people of Noah, they would not have been drowned; and if the people of Lot had been apprised of them, they would not have been showered with stones. [I'jāz-e-Ahmadi, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 19, p. 110] 12 Which none shall touch except those who are purified. -AlWaqi'ah, 56: 80 [Publisher]