Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 8
8 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad It is unfortunate that these fabricated Hadith are a collection of contradictions so innumerable that even absurd and senseless tales could not be so ridden with inconsistency. However, the intellects of those people could not penetrate the depth of these absurdities. ” Then the Promised Messiah as said: “Upon reading these Hadith, I was horri- fied and the thought crossed my heart—with great pain indeed—that if God Almighty had not dealt with this, and if He had not established this dispensa- tion, which has taken on the responsibility of disseminating the actual truth, this collection of fabricated Hadith surely would have soon driven countless people to renounce Islam. These narrations have laid the foundation for Islam’s destruc- tion and a perilous wave of apostasy. Now, when these narrations were bound to remain unfulfilled, and the baseless prophecies made within them were noth- ing but mere lies that would never flourish and were comprised of false stories, it is clear that these narrations would be presented after some time before the coming generations, still unfulfilled. This in turn would obviously lead people to entertain the doubt that Islam is also a baseless religion, standing on mere tales in the same manner as the old Indian religions. Our future generations would have laughed and mocked uncontrollably, and would have been at liberty to auda- ciously claim: ‘O you who turn the Antichrist into God! Could a religion that ascribes the complete and perfect attributes of God to the Antichrist possibly have the right to claim that it is the religion of truth and the religion that teaches God’s Oneness?’” 1 The Perfection of the Propagation of Guidance is Destined at the Hand of the Promised Messiah The Promised Messiah as states: “I cannot understand what sort of reformation this is. The fact of the matter is that a distance from the era of prophethood in itself gives rise to a state that is worthy of pity. In the case of Islam, there was des- tined to be thousands of trials and calamities as well. Then what benefit can there possibly be in war? In any case, after all of this, a narration also states: عِیْسٰی َ ّ مَھْدِی َّ اِل َ ل There is no Mahdi except for Jesus. 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 4, no. 37, dated 17 October 1900, pp. 1-3 p. 9