Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 38
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 38 would there have been for Prophets? The Messengers of God Almighty come only for this reason, and they surely do come. Yes, indeed, the practice of Allah has always been that when the time for autumn sets in, leaves fall off the trees; there remains neither fruit nor flower, nor fragrance. On the contrary, a foul odour replaces the fragrance, and there is an ugliness in place of beauty. But then, all at once, when the season of spring sets in, everything is revived gradually. The same is the process in the spiritual realm. When you see that the time of autumn sets on faith and good deeds, and the fruit, the flowers and the leaves are falling all around, consider that spring is imminent. The time of the Prophets, peace be on them, resembles spring. I have examined all the scriptures and I have thoroughly studied the Torah and the Gospel, but I declare under oath that the evidence furnished by the Glorious Quran has never ever been given by any other scripture. As numerous the narrations of the wicked and the sinful that Almighty Allah had described in the Glorious Quran, alongside each of them He mentioned that they existed at that time as well. What was the reason for this? The underlying rea- son was to express that if the advent of Messengers had been necessary to quell one or two types of evil, then why would it not be necessary when there were so many kinds of evils spread- ing amidst an amassing of all wickedness? Thus, the advent of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was justified and took place at the very time of need. This is a convincing argument against the people who reject the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. They should reflect over the fact that when any evil arose in any age, a Messenger was sent [to eradicate it]. Hence, when the aggregation of evil amassed during the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to the extreme point that it had to be said that