Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 443
26 September 1905 443 greatness of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, on the one hand, and to let the truth be known about Christ on the other. This is such an obvious point that even a person of ordinary intellect can understand it. Look, if a great man is likened to a low-ranking orderly, would he be offended or not? Then, is there not even this much dignity in God Almighty that He would put an end to a weak mortal being seated upon His throne of Divinity and the depravity of humanity? Allah Almighty Himself has affirmed that [ Jesus] the Messiah never claimed that he was God. If he were to make such a claim, He would have cast him into Hell. At one place it has also been said that the Messiah will be summoned to reply to whether he had said to make himself and his mother God. Then Jesus will declare his innocence at that point, finally asserting: 1 اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت َتْنُك َتْنَا َبْيِقَّرلا ْمِهْيَلَع اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت َتْنُك َتْنَا َبْيِقَّرلا ْمِهْيَلَع Meaning, as long as I lived among them, I never said so. Indeed, when You caused me to die, then You alone were the Watcher over them. The statement preceding it: 2 اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف clearly shows that as long as Jesus was alive, this corruption did not arise in his peo- ple. All the misguidance occurred after his death. If [ Jesus] the Messiah is still alive, then we will have to believe that Christians have not gone astray but stand upon the truth. Think about it and tell me how dangerous an attack this would be on the veracity of Islam, since when that one true religion exists and not a single error has arisen in it yet whatever they say should be 1. S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118 [Publisher] 2. As long as I remained among them ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118). [Publisher]