Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 495
19 October 1907 495 Evils are of two kinds—firstly internal and secondly exter- nal. Externally, the priests and adherents of other religions raised unjustified and baseless objections against Islam that upon hearing them thousands of people became apostates. Thousands of magazines and books were written in opposition to Islam, and an effort was made to annihilate this pure religion with all sorts of completely erroneous objections, and a child of a woman was made the Son of God by presenting him in diverse forms. This is true that Jesus as was a Messenger of God, but he was not God, and there is no excellence in him over other Messengers, nor are his miracles unique. Internally, this evil was faced by Islam that the Muslims themselves established such characteristics for Jesus as that were unique to God alone, and this way they assisted the Christians immensely. 1 The Holy Prophet, may Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Him, and All Prophets are Pure from Satan’s Influence In the morning, the Promised Messiah, peace and blessings be upon him, went for a walk with his followers. He said: I have read the latest book of a maulaw i who has written that except for Prophet Jesus and his mother Mary, the birth of no one else in the world is pure from the touch of Satan. Only these two souls, Mary and the son of Mary, are pure from the touch of Satan and no one else. I was extremely regretful at reading this statement that these people declare me a disbe- liever, yet their condition is such that they do not consider all 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11, no. 38, p. 1, dated 24 October 1907