Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 413
24 September 1905 413 harm has it caused to Islam? It is a matter of pride for Islam and the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that a single individual of the Ummah of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, achieves the excellences of the man whom 400,000,000 people consider to be God; nay rather, he surpasses this. This is the very same point as it is written that Har u n Rash i d gave the territory of Egypt to an Abyssinian. When someone asked, he replied that this is the very Egypt whose dominion made Pharaoh claim Divinity. In the same way, in order to strike at the ‘Divinity’ of the Messiah, Allah Almighty made me the Messiah so that the glory of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, would be revealed through it. The Truth about the Touch of Satan I am baffled when I see that these people have attributed many distinctions to the Messiah that have not been attributed to anyone else. For example, they say that only he is pure from the touch of Satan. However, our belief is that no Prophet was touched by Satan, nor is anyone from among the righteous and truthful servants of Almighty Allah touched by Satan. What was meant by it was quite different from what they understood it to be. If one holds the belief that only the Messiah as was free from the touch of Satan and no one else was free from it, then this is a blasphemous statement. The fact of the matter is that the Jews used to call Mary, peace be on her—God forbid—an adulteress, and the Messiah—we seek refuge with Allah—a bastard. Therefore, Almighty Allah exonerated her from this calumny through the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and gave Mary