Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 442
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 442 Almighty and those who are righteous would be destroyed if this were so and they would indeed die a living death. But no, it is not like that. Allah Almighty can bestow that same reward upon every person as He bestowed upon His chosen servants. What is needed is that one should come to Him with that kind of heart and sincerity. The Wisdom of Being Named Messiah I have not made any claim on my own. I preferred my solitude, but Almighty Allah’s honour willed it to be so and He Himself brought me to the fore. Since the practice of Allah is indeed that when a person is glorified above and beyond his due hon- our, Allah the Almighty becomes the enemy of that glorifica- tion because it is against His Tau hi d [Oneness of Allah]. In this same manner, that glory had been ascribed to Jesus, peace be on him, to which he had no right, up to the point that he was proclaimed God and the place meant for God was left vacant. Ask the Christians and see that they really say that Jesus the Messiah is none other than God Himself. Now, when a man was given such glory and he was made God (God forbid) and in this way the [unique] aspect of the Divine was [grossly] misrep- resented, wouldn’t the jealousy [in point of honour and respect] of God Almighty be roused to deliver humanity from this wor- ship of a mere mortal? Consequently, pursuant to this demand, He sent me as the Messiah so that it would be made clear to the world that [ Jesus] the Messiah was nothing more than a weak mortal. God Almighty has willed to rectify this kufr [disbelief, blasphemy]. For this, He adopted the path of sending a person from the Ummah of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with the same title to demonstrate the