Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 55
27 OCTOBER 1905 Trials are Necessary during the Time of Every Prophet It is understood from this that there must be trials during the time of every Prophet. If God desired, He could have explicitly written such words in the Torah that the name of the father of the Prophet of the last age would be 'Abdullah and the name of the mother would be Āminah, and that he would be a resident of Makkah. However, God did not do this. The same thing hap- pened in the time of the Messiah of that age. If people had seen the angels descending with the Noble Prophet, no one would have rejected him. However, the practice of God Almighty is that trials come and the people with taqwā are saved at that time. The True Nature of Descending from the Heavens The custom of descent from the heavens [of someone] had never been established in the past. Present any precedent from Adam to this day that some Prophet ascended to heaven or descended from heaven. It is not God's practice to make some matter unique for any one person. No Prophet came with any- thing unique. In this way, that person would become a God, and to attribute uniqueness to Yasū' [Christ] is tantamount to endorsing the Christians ourselves. Allah the Exalted has openly disclosed the death of Jesus. Study the hadith of the Mi'raj [Spiritual Ascension]. Those who reject the Miʻrāj reject Islam. The single hadith of the Mirāj is equivalent to 100,000 ahādīth. On the night of the Mi'raj, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw 'Īsā [Jesus] among the dead. 55