Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 244
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 244 Allah may send the Prophets to Hell if He so desires. The Promised Messiah as responded: The former is based on truth. ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌرْیِدَق ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌرْیِدَق does not mean that Allah the Exalted also has power to commit suicide. In this vein, it can also be said that He has the power to create a son for Himself, then what is the hesitation in accept- ing the Christian faith? Remember, Allah the Exalted is undoubtedly Omnipotent, but He does not contradict His Holiness and those attributes of His that have been set forth since ancient times in revealed scriptures, as if to say even His line of thinking does not go against them. That Holy Being does not even go against His promises, nor is He inclined to do so. Therefore, to argue that He is capable of suicide after reading His attribute of being Eternal and Everlasting in all Divine scriptures, and after reciting: 1 ْلُق َوُه ُهّٰللا ٌدَحَا۰۰ ُهّٰللَا ُدَمَّصلا۰۰ ْمَل ْدِلَي َو ْمَل ْدَلْوُي۰۰ َو ْمَل ْنُكَي ٗهَّل اًوُفُك ٌدَحَا۰۰ ْلُق َوُه ُهّٰللا ٌدَحَا۰۰ ُهّٰللَا ُدَمَّصلا۰۰ ْمَل ْدِلَي َو ْمَل ْدَلْوُي۰۰ َو ْمَل ْنُكَي ٗهَّل اًوُفُك ٌدَحَا۰۰ to be convinced of the possibility of Him fathering a son is an utterly absurd act. But to talk about such things under the pre- tence that we are merely debating a hypothetically possible sit- uation is actually insolence of the highest degree. 2 1. He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Independent and Besought of all. He begets not, nor is He begotten ( S u rah al-Ikhl as , 112: 2–4 ). [Publisher] 2. Badr , vol. 6, no. 17, p. 8–9, dated 25 April 1907