Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 189
189 Malfuzat – Volume IV that are necessary for it to grow and flourish. In the same way, Allah the Exalted always continues to support His pious servants and the truths that He bestows to us with fresh and blooming forms of succour. It is this light which guides the Truthful one of God and enables one to recognise them. There are no Living Signs in Christianity Now, if you judge Christian doctrine and faith against these criteria, you will find nothing but decaying bones and dead elements, as it were. They all accept unani - mously that today there is not a single individual in their midst who can show signs that would set a seal of attestation on the proof of the truthfulness of their religion and the Messiah’s blood. This is a great thing. I would even state that according to the signs stipulated in the Gospel, it would perhaps be impossible to find even a single person who possesses faith among the Christians. Nevertheless, put aside living signs for a moment. The Christians present a sign in support of their religion by giving details regarding the whereabouts of a certain grave from which the Messiah resurrected a dead person. These narrations have no greater worth than stories. This is why I have said repeatedly that these spectacles of healing disease, which are shown even by certain Hindu ascetics and by experts of mesmerism in this modern-day, cannot be accepted by anyone as forms of miracles. It is prophecy alone that serves as a powerful sign and is seen with honour in every era. I must say with regret, however, regarding the prophecies of the Messiah that are recorded in the Gospel, that one cannot help but laugh on reading them: there will be famines, there will be earthquakes, the rooster will crow, etc. Now go to any village and you will see that roosters crow all the time, do they not? Similarly, famines and earthquakes also are ordinary things. Experts today are able to reveal even greater detail by telling us that there would be a storm at such and such time, or that there will be rainfall at a certain time. Now look at the prophecies of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, how 600 years prior he said that a fire would emerge which would spare vegetation but consume stone, and it was fulfilled. They should pre - sent shining prophecies like this. I published an announcement with a reward for 1,000 rupees about the prophecies of the Messiah. However, to this day not a single Christian has been able to prove that in their strength of proof and in number, the prophecies of the Messiah are greater than my prophecies, of which p. 455