Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 260
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 260 of God Almighty in any century. And this is verily a phenom- enon which is manifest proof of the life of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. As opposed to this, Jesus being alive is not proven. In his very life, there was such a revolt that no other Prophet had ever experienced the like of it. And this is the reason why Allah the Exalted had to demand from Jesus that: 1 َتْنَاَء َتْلُق ِساَّنلِل ْيِنْوُذِخَّتا َو َيِّمُا ِنْيَهٰلِا َتْنَاَء َتْلُق ِساَّنلِل ْيِنْوُذِخَّتا َو َيِّمُا ِنْيَهٰلِا Meaning that, ‘Did you yourself say, “Take me and my mother as Gods?’” The community that Jesus prepared was so weak and unreliable that even Christians themselves admit it. Comparing the Holy Prophet’s Companions with the Disciples of Jesus It is proven from the Gospels that those twelve disciples who were the exemplary fruit of his special holy ability and influ- ence, one of whom was named Judas Iscariot—sold his master and mentor for thirty pieces of silver—and a second who, being the foremost among the disciples and being called the blessed disciple who held the keys of heaven in his hand—namely, Peter—stood in front of him and cursed him three times. When their impact and benefit was so negligible in the presence of the Messiah himself, imagine what would be salvaged now after the lapse of 1900 years. On the other hand, the Jam a ‘at that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, prepared was such a truthful and loyal group that they sacri- ficed their lives for him and abandoned their homelands, their 1. S u rah al-M a’ idah, 5:117 [Publisher]