Fazl-e-Umar — Page 293
Fazle Umar 293 now in Palestine…“the promise of the Latter Days” applies to the time of the Promised Messiah [as]. “And already have We written in the Book of David, after the exhortation, that my righteous servants shall inherit the land. ” (Ch. 21:V. 106) By “the land” is meant Palestine. It is worthy of note that even Christian com- mentators themselves have interpreted the phrase “inherit the land” or “inherit the earth” in the Psalms as meaning “inherit Canaan”. In our own time the country of the name of Palestine has altogether ceased to exist and on its ruins the State of Israel has been built. But this great historical event, too has taken place in fulfilment of a Quranic prophecy highlighted by Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra]. But this is only a temporary phase. The Muslims are destined to win it back. Let the whole world know that sooner or later—sooner rather than later— Palestine will revert to Muslim possession. This is a Divine decree and nobody can alter God’s decree. God’s “righteous servants”, the followers of Hadhrat Muhammad Mustafa [saw] shall definitely inherit this land. Neither America’s atomic bombs nor their hydrogen bombs can avert God’s decree. During his final illness, people began to say that God forbid, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] had lost his mind. How wrong they were. In this precarious state of health he started the monumental task of writing his interpretive and free-flowing shorter commentary of the Holy Qur’an in Urdu, the Tafseer Sagheer. The long hours of gruelling intellectual work resulted in his serious sickness for a second time in 1958. During the last session of the Annual Conference on 29 December 1944 Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood stated: “I was a person who possessed no secular knowledge, yet God of His Grace, appointed angels for my instruction and by this means made me aware of such meanings of the Qur’an as were beyond the imagination of a human being. The