Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 186
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 186 answer thereupon, O Allah, Holy are You, how was it appropri- ate for me to utter such a statement that is not true? If I had said this, You would have known. You know what is in my mind but I know not what is in Your mind. You are the Knower of hid- den things. I did not say to them except what You commanded me, that worship Allah who is my Lord and your Lord, and so long as I was among them, I continued to watch over them and after You caused me to die, You were watching over them after- wards (I am not aware of anything), and You see everything. Now it is worth pondering here that it will be the Day of Judgment and all the people will be standing before Allah the Exalted and it will be the hour about which it is said: 1 ْمُهُقْدِص َنْیِقِدّٰصلا اَذٰه ُمْوَي ُعَفْنَي ْمُهُقْدِص َنْیِقِدّٰصلا اَذٰه ُمْوَي ُعَفْنَي it will be the day that truth will benefit the ones who speak the truth. At such time, Jesus will say to God Almighty that so long as he was in the world, he continued to preach the Oneness of God to them, and he did not know what happened to them afterwards. Notwithstanding whether he is buried in the earth or sitting somewhere in heaven, this point is worth carefully pondering that if he will return to the world before the Day of Judgment and then live for forty years, and will also vehe- mently punish the Christians for making him and his mother gods, and then will reform them too, and will make those who will accept him into Muslims, then how can his response on the Day of Judgment be that he was unaware of what happened or did not happen after him; rather, his response should be: ‘O Exalted Maker! I have severely punished them for this belief of theirs and have broken their cross, and have taken them to task for forty years. ’ 1. S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:120 [Publisher]