Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 462
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 462 beyond human power and the precedent of which is not found except in the earlier Prophets and Messengers. Baba Chittu— Yes, okay. The Promised Messiah as — Then the story is short. This sentence naturally requires that the Promised Messiah as , now set forth the proofs of his claim, but the thing troubling Syed Muhammad Y u suf could not remain contained. His purpose appeared to be that the excellence of his scholarliness would dissipate if he did not speak on this occasion. Uncontrollably, he said that Baba Sahib did not understand your question. I will answer him. Upon this, Baba Chittu said that yes, Maulaw i Sahib would explain. Therefore, the Promised Messiah as said that he might indeed speak. 1 When Maulaw i Syed Muhammad Y u suf started to intervene in the ongoing conversation against the etiquettes of the gathering, the con- versation started upon Baba Chittu’s consent to begin as follows: Representative Baba Chittu— Your question is about how we have come to believe in the Quran. The answer is that we believed in the Quran because we were born in a Muslim home. The Promised Messiah as — This is a strange argument. In this way, every person can easily prove his book’s truth and that of his religion just by saying that he was born in a Hindu or Christian family. So what is the difference between this argu- ment of yours and those who said in opposing the Holy Quran that: 2 َاَنَ وَجَد ْاَنَ عَلَيْهِ ا ٰاَبَٓء مَا َاَنَ وَجَد ْاَنَ عَلَيْهِ ا ٰاَبَٓء مَا. Can you tell me? 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 14, 15, dated 31 January 1907 2. That wherein we found our fathers ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:105). [Publisher]