Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 103
103 they can revive a dead man, or make broken things appear as if they are perfectly intact. For example, in the Ain-i-Akbari as well, Abul Fazal has narrated a tale that a magician ascended into the sky in front of a crowd of people and one after the other, parts of his body fell from the sky. His wife burned herself on the pyre as per the Hindu tradition known as sati; however, the magician returned from the sky and asked for his wife. When she could not be found, he suspected that a certain vizier had hid her because he had feelings for her. Then, the King granted the magician permission to search the vizier, after which he pulled his wife out from under the vizier’s arm. ” The Promised Messiah as said: “In such circumstances, man is left with no choice but to have faith and deem the works of Prophets to be from God and consider the tricks of magicians to be deception and illusion. In this regard, the matter becomes a delicate one. The Miracle of the Holy Quran However, the miracle with which God Almighty has blessed the Holy Quran is its sublime moral teaching and values of social interaction, and its eloquence and articulacy, which are all things that no man can match in the least. So too is the case with its miracle that relates to news of the unseen and prophecy. In this era, no master magician claims to be able to do such things at all. In this manner, Allah the Almighty has granted my signs a clear distinction, so that no one is left with any room for excuse or objection. Thus, God Almighty has manifested His signs so openly and distinctly that there is no place for any doubt or suspicion to find its way in. ” An individual submitted to the Promised Messiah as that someone had raised the objection that Mirza Sahib was the one who had Lekhram murdered. To this the Promised Messiah as said: “That is absurd and false. These people should at least stop to consider why the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had Abu Rafi and Ka’b killed?” The Promised Messiah as said: “Our prophecies are ones which can be seen to possess divine power and this is a sign that demonstrates that they are from Allah the Exalted. ”