Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 379
12 September 1907 379 1 َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا ْتَلِّطُع َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا ْتَلِّطُع This is a matter of principle that when one commissioned by Allah is sent into the world, then all the major events of that time and the major revolutions that take place, they are all attributed to him. The Meaning of Breaking the Cross and the Suspension of Wars The Promised Messiah as commented on the major agreements and trea- ties that are being drawn these days to curb wars and bloodshed, and the current era continues to move towards peace and harmony by itself: َ یَضَع ُ الْحَرْب َ یَضَع ُ الْحَرْب [ ya d a‘ul- h arb —‘He will stop warfare’] and ُ ْسِر ك َ ی ُ ْسِر ك َ َی َالصَّلِیْب الصَّلِیْب [ yaksiru s-s al i b— ‘He will break the Cross’] do not prove that there would be a person who would go to all the places where there is fighting and reconcile [the parties], and would go around breaking crosses that cost very little to make. If this were the case then if two or four [crosses] are broken, hundreds more will be manufactured. But rather the reality is that such a breeze will begin to blow by the will of God, and such means and resources will come into being that wars will be avoided and the worship of the cross will disappear. 1. And when the she-camels, ten-month pregnant, are abandoned ( S u rah at-Takw i r, 81:5). [Publisher]