Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 105
15 January 1907 105 was also published in Ish a ‘at-us-Sunnah, ٌ َالِمَات ك وَلَهُم ْ مُ ٌ َالِمَات ك وَلَهُم ْ مُ [and for them shall be Divine discourses]. The revered Mujaddid [Alf Th a n i , Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi] has also written the same, and has distinguished a Saint from a Prophet in terms of the scarcity or abundance of discourse. The word nab i [prophet] here only conveys these meanings and everyone has their own interpretation, otherwise there is no Prophet after Kh a tamun Nabiyy i n [the Seal of the Prophets], may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. All kinds of allegations are lodged against us to cause public distrust. Sometimes they say that we deny angels and sometimes something else, whereas we believe with a sincere heart in the angels, the Books of God, the a ha d i th of the Noble Messenger, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, Heaven and Hell, chastisement of the grave, Divine decree, and the Resurrection of the dead. We leave the details of these matters to God as the cautious way is to believe in the summation and leave the details to God. As for the practical part of the Shariah, in my opinion, above all is the Glorious Quran, then the authentic a ha d i th that are supported by the sunnah [practice of the Holy Prophet s as ]. If an important matter is not found amongst these two, then my practice is to act on the Hanafi school of thought because their majority is proof of the fact that the pleasure of God lies in this, but we consider majority insignificant against the Glorious Quran and the a ha d i th. Some of their issues are such that they are contrary even to qiy a s s a hih [sound ana- logical reasoning]. In such cases the ijtih a d [independent rea- soning] of Ahmadi scholars is ِ بِالْعَمَل ی ٰ اَوْل ِ بِالْعَمَل ی ٰ اَوْل [most worthy of being acted upon]. Look, a period of ninety or so years has been set for a man who has gone missing. It has not been said that she [the missing person’s wife] should simply not marry. This is absurd.