Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 13
22 October 1904 13 if they experience difficulties here, then it is possible that they will be disappointed, and out of that disappointment criticisms may ensue, thereby becoming a source of trials. The sin is then the responsibility of the host. The Promised Messiah as was told that some people start religious debates with the newly arrived people in the traveller’s lodgings. When they do so, they speak in accordance with their own thoughts and opinions, which is sometimes inappropriate and even against the purport of the Promised Messiah as. A newly arrived seeker [after truth] assumes this must be the belief of these people, although this is a complete mistake, and the result is that these newly arrived seekers fall into a trial. The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, directed that: This kind of speech should never occur. Since some of our debaters are compelled to dialogue with Christians, when they speak disrespectfully about the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, they, too, have to give the same kind of proof about Yas u ‘ [Christ] according to the situation. All that depends upon the requirement of the time, but not every person is qualified to do it, and often when other people use a word of insolence or rudeness concerning a Prophet, they commit a sin. It should never be assumed that the Messiah as [ Jesus] or other Prophets were ordinary people; they were the chosen and close friends of Allah the Exalted. The Holy Quran, in view of profound wisdom and propriety, has mentioned a word about the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that while it has set forth his many luminous qualities,