Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 286
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 286 and a grave insult to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. There isn’t so much as the least sense of dignity in those people who fabricate these kinds of issues and try to malign Islam. These people are far removed from Islam. Actually, this issue is as follows. The Holy Quran proves that there are two types of birth. One by the touch of the Holy Spirit and the other by the touch of Satan. All progeny of good and righteous people comes from the Holy Spirit, and the prog- eny that is the result of evil is from Satan. All the Prophets were born of the Holy Spirit, but the Jews objected that Jesus’ birth was—God forbid—illegitimate and due to an illicit relation- ship of Mary with a soldier named Pantera and was the product of the touch of Satan. Therefore, Allah the Exalted gave this testimony to remove this charge from him [ Jesus] and confirm that his birth was also from the touch of the Holy Spirit. Since no such allegation was made against our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, nor the other Prophets, it was for this reason that there wasn’t any need to declare such an assertion about them. The parents of our Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, ‘Abdullah and A minah, were always respected from the begin- ning, and no one ever had any such thought about them. A per- son who is arrested in a case requires someone’s testimony to be cleared, but a person who is not arrested in a case does not need any testimony to be cleared. The True Nature of Mi‘r a j In the very same way, there is another error that has spread among the Muslims, and that is in relation to the Mi‘r a j [Spiritual Ascension]. I believe that the Holy Prophet did experience the Mi‘r a j, but some people believe it was just an