Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 265
265 is beyond all limits; and when one observes the effect that this has had on the Muslim youth, one must say that they do not seem as if they were born to Muslim parents at all. Another Name for the Promised Messiah Is the Breaker of the Cross Put aside everything else. What would the man sent to reform this disorder of the cross be named? The nature of this disorder inherently demanded that the person who would come to reform it be dubbed the Breaker of the Cross. This is another title of the Promised Messiah. The Quran and Hadith have expressed this subject in various ways and have given a glad tiding of the Promised One who would appear. One ought to understand this well because when a person fails to grasp a matter completely, it is as though they have understood nothing. However, when a person understands something after full reflection and contemplation, it then becomes difficult for anyone to misguide them. Therefore, I advise you to ponder deeply in order to address this question. Do not consider this to be a minor and insignificant matter for this is a matter which relates to faith; it is a question of heaven and hell. Denying the Promised Messiah and its Consequence To reject me is not a denial of my person, but is in fact, a denial of Allah and His Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, because anyone who rejects me, God forbid, holds Allah the Exalted to be a liar before they deny me. For on the one hand, such a person observes that internal and external forms of disor- der have surpassed all bounds, yet they believe that God Almighty has made no arrangement to reform this state of affairs, even though He has promised: 1 َ لَهٗ لَحٰفِظُوْن الذِّكْرَ وَ اِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا اِنَّا Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. When an individual apparently believes that God Almighty has promised in the Quranic verse on successorship 2 that like the Mosaic dispensation, God would raise a line of successors in the ummah of Muhammad sa as well, they ultimately 1 al-Hijr, 15:10 2 This refers to an-Nur , 24:56 of the Holy Quran. [Publisher]