Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 43
43 1 ِ ۃ َوْمِ الْقِيٰمَ ی ی اِلٰ ْنَ كَـفَرُوْۤا ی الَّذِ َ ْنَ اتَّـبَعُوْكَ فَوْق ی ِ وَ جَاعِلُ الَّذ And He will place those who follow thee above those who disbelieve. The promises of Allah Almighty are true and they are never broken. So all of you ought to endeavour to partake in these promises. Here, Allah the Exalted speaks of a form of contest. The Arabic word fawq (to be above) means that the followers of the Messiah would defeat their opponents. This obviously does not mean that the followers of the Messiah would develop strong and heavier bodies to fight a physical contest. For this community has not been permitted to fight because there is an instruction of the Holy Prophet sa as follows: َ َضَعُ الْـحَرْب ي He will suspend war. Therefore, the ascendancy that the community of the Messiah will enjoy is one of spiritual truth and its fruits; of knowledge, insight, points of wisdom, hidden verities, nearness to Allah Almighty, and the discovery of fresh knowledge due to this affinity with God and matters divine. The water, as it were, possessed by the opponents, is not heavenly water, and it has no relationship with that which comes from above; this is why it quickly becomes polluted and sullied. However, the ascendancy of the followers of the Promised Messiah is heavenly in nature, due to which they constantly receive fresh knowledge and unique insight. As per nature’s way, if water does not descend from heaven, the water on earth either becomes dry or develops impure and infectious elements. Hence, for the purpose of purification, the law established by Allah Almighty is that there is rainfall from above at least once or twice a year, which cleanses all the pollution in the atmos- phere and various forms of contamination, along with other elements of unclean- liness on earth as well. In this phenomenon of nature, Allah the Exalted has made a hidden indication to the law of revival, and in doing so, He has clearly demon- strated how the system of spiritual and physical revival functions. The Hadith that a Reformer would appear at the head of every century may be deemed inau- thentic by our opponents, but I say that when the law of nature clearly exhibits a similar phenomenon, how can one reject this Hadith? Everything at some point, requires rejuvination. Hence, every new century has the right to be blessed with 1 Aal-e-Imran , 3:56