Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 144
144 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ask the Jews, they could have found their answer. The actual fact, which I have mentioned countless times, is that the Jews declared that the Messiah as was ac- cursed, God forbid. The proof that the Jews gave to support their view was that the Messiah as was killed on the cross. The Holy Quran, however, has refuted this allegation and has in fact charged the Jews with wrongdoing. Allah the Exalted never disgraces His holy servants and His promise is true when He states: 1 الْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ سَبِيْلًا لَنْ يَّجْعَلَ اهللُ لِلْكٰفِرِيْنَ عَلَى Allah will not grant the disbelievers a way to prevail against the believers. When the Messiah as was put on the cross, he apprehended that the Jews of the time would take his life on the cross and thus charge him with an accursed death. In this hour of death, Allah the Exalted gave glad tidings to the Messiah as saying: ‘I will cause you to die a natural death, and will exalt you, and will clear you of the charges against you. ’ Each and every word of this statement is full of truth. It is a pity, however, that these people do not reflect, and seek to distort the meaning of the Holy Quran by altering its order. Did Allah Almighty not have the power to say: ِ یَا عِیْسٰی اِنِّی ْ رَافِعُک َ اِلَی السَّمَآء O Jesus, I shall lift you into the sky. What difficulty then was God faced with so that He was compelled to say: 2 َ اِنِّيْ مُتَوَفِّيْك يٰعِيْسٰۤى O Jesus, I will cause thee to die a natural death. Therefore, the sequence that has been followed in this verse is in accordance with the events as they unfolded. Foolish is the one who states that sequence is not set out by use of the conjunction ‘and. ’ If there is anyone so dull as to think otherwise, then in the least they ought to look over the events in this relation, and think about whether a person is cleared of charges before or after they are exalted. This ‘clearing of charges’ referred to in the verse under discussion alludes to the fact that after Jesus as , a Messenger would appear as the Arbiter and give a verdict on this issue of contention, and he would vindicate Jesus as of all the allegations that are levelled against him by the Jews. 1 an-Nisa, 4:142 2 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, no. 12, dated 31 March 1901, pp. 1-3