Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 173
29 November 1905 173 The Death of God’s Appointee has No Impact on the Movement Established by God Almighty The Promised Messiah as said: I give preference to the Will of Allah the Exalted, and I believe that whatever He does, is for the best. Do not think anything goes amiss in the works of Allah the Exalted that He has intended to carry out. Even suspecting such a thing is an egre- gious sin. No. On the contrary, those works continue to oper- ate as He wills, just as [they did] before, and Allah the Exalted conducts them in whatever manner He wishes. I have just men- tioned regarding Moses, peace be on him, that he died while still on his way [to the Promised Land]. The people continued to mourn for forty days, but God Almighty had that same task accomplished through Joshua the son of Nun. Then Prophets of subordinate ranks continued to come until Jesus, son of Mary, came, and nothing went amiss in that Movement that God Almighty initiated through Moses. So it should never be thought that anything would go amiss in the Movement established by God Almighty. It would be a mistake and can lead even to idolatry if the thinking is that without the existence of a particular person, the work cannot be done. Therefore, I never like to lift my eyes to look at anyone other than Allah the Exalted.