Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 416
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 416 If the real dead could come back to life, then this miracle would have been given to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, before anyone else. Yes, it is true that sometimes people suffering from severe diseases and being in a condition wherein the signs of life are absent, Allah Almighty heals them due to the supplications of His servants and Messengers. We believe in this kind of revival and it has happened here as well. Besides this, the other revival is spiritual revival. Thus, there are these two types of revival of the dead that we accept. The spiritual impact of the Messiah was very minimal as the Jews did not accept him and those who accepted him did not attain perfection. One cursed him, the other got him arrested and the rest fled. Yes, he prayed for physical health of some of them and those patients got better. The same is also happening now. In short, our main purpose and goal and teaching is what I have outlined earlier. These issues of the Messiah’s death and so on came in our way, which Divine expediency chose in order to break the domination of the polytheists. Since the Messiah had come at the end of the dispensation of Moses, peace be on him, the same was necessary here as well, that the Messiah should have come. So he has come. Some also say that the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him, was called ‘the likeness of Moses’. For this reason, here, too, ‘the likeness of the Messiah’ should apply [to me]. The reply to this is that if ‘M u s a ’ [instead of ‘the like- ness of M u s a ’] had been applied there [for the Holy Prophet], confusion could have ensued. However, here the precedent of Elijah [being fulfilled in the person of John the Baptist] had been in existence. This is the reason ‘Messiah’ alone has been mentioned [in the prophecies referring to me].