Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 497
19 October 1907 497 Prophets? No shame or modesty remains within these people that they launch such unjust attacks on the Holy Prophet s as. If these people possessed any love for the Holy Prophet s as , would they interpret the Hadith with these meanings? For every [Divine] word there is a cause of its disclosure, an example is that in the Holy Quran for Prophet Jesus as and his mother Mary, such terms have been used due to necessity that Mary was truthful and the spirit of Prophet Jesus as was from God. Similarly, these words have been stated in the Hadith 1 due to necessity, that the birth of Prophet Jesus as was pure from the touch of Satan. This need arose in this way that the Jews used to say—rather, they still say to this day— that Mary, God forbid, was an adulteress and the birth of the Messiah was illegitimate and with Satan’s influence. In response to this allegation, God Almighty, in His pure Word, and the Noble Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in the Noble Hadith, stated that these alle- gations are fabricated, rather Mary was a truthful woman and the birth of Prophet Jesus as was pure from the touch of Satan. Because no disbeliever had ever such a thought about the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, or his mother, rather in the view of everyone, he was pure and clean with respect to his birth, and his mother was chaste and pure, hence, there was no need to mention such words about him or his respected mother that they were pure from Satan’s influence. However, due to the calumny of the Jews regarding Prophet Jesus as and his mother there was a need for acquitting words. 1. In Musnadul-Im a m Ahmad bin Hanbal wa bi H a mishihi, Muntakhib Kanzul- ‘Umm a l f i Sunanil-Aqw a l wal-Af ‘ a l al-Fa d luth-Th a n i f i Khur u jil-K a dhib i n wal-Fitan B a b Khur u ji Ya’j u j wa Ma’j u j, vol. 7, p. 58, published by Al-Maktabul- Islam i ; it is written as: ُ وَمَن ْ مَس َّ ابْن َ مَرْیَم َ کَان َ مِن ْ اَرْفَع ِ النَّاس ِ قَدْرا ً ویَعْظُم ُ مَسُّہ ُ وَمَن ْ مَس َّ ابْن َ مَرْیَم َ کَان َ مِن ْ اَرْفَع ِ النَّاس ِ قَدْرا ً ویَعْظُم ُ مَسُّہ. [Publisher]