Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 244
244 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 Allah may send the Prophets to Hell if He so desires. The Promised Messiahas responded: The former is based on truth. عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ 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 اللهُ أَحَدُ اللهُ الصَّمَدُ لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدُ وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ قُلْ هُوَ اللهُ 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 (Sūrah al-Ikhlāș, 112: 2-4). [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 6, no. 17, p. 8-9, dated 25 April 1907