Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 484
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 484 Now, ponder over this and see whether or not this true essence [of Tau hi d ] is fully realized in the believers of the Torah. It would also be known to you whatever [transgressions] they perpetrated even within the very lifetime of Moses himself, peace be on him. Had the Torah been sufficient, the Jews would have purified their souls, but they were not purified. They grew increasingly hard-hearted and insolent to the extreme. This efficacy is only found in the Holy Quran, that it casts a special effect upon the heart of man—provided there is no aversion to it in letter or spirit—and its exemplars exist in every age. Accordingly, he is present even now [i. e. the Promised Messiah himself ]. The Holy Quran said: 1 ْلُق ْنِا ْمُتْنُك َنْوُّبِحُت َهّٰللا ْيِنْوُعِبَّتاَف۠ ُمُكْبِبْحُي ُهّٰللا ْلُق ْنِا ْمُتْنُك َنْوُّبِحُت َهّٰللا ْيِنْوُعِبَّتاَف۠ ُمُكْبِبْحُي ُهّٰللا Meaning that: O Messenger, tell these people that if you love Allah the Almighty, then follow me. Almighty Allah will make you His beloved. Perfect obedience to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, elevates man to the position of God’s beloved, through which it becomes known that he [ s as] was the paragon of a perfect monotheist. Then, if the Jews had been believers in Tau hi d, there was no reason for them to have stayed away from such a monotheist. They should have remembered that denial and hostility of God Almighty’s Kh a tamur-Rusul [Seal of the Messengers] is a very dangerous matter. Nevertheless, they did not care and despite the fact that the prophecy about him was present in their own 1. S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:32 [Publisher]