Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 59
27 OCTOBER 1905 59 The Criterion for a True Revelation MAULAWI [ŞAHIB] - What is revelation? Even I receive revelation. (Later, it came to be known that the name of this maulawī is Nizām- ud-Din, and he teaches boys in a mosque. ) THE PROMISED MESSIAH AS-Any revelation not supported by the Sign of heavenly support is unacceptable to me. Claimants of such revelation have existed in the time of every Prophet. If you possess any Sign, show it. In the meantime, Hadrat Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan took out a lex- icon, Mukhtar aş-Şihāḥ, and showed Maulawi Şahib that the meaning of تَوَفَّى ]tawaffi] is to cause to die. MAULAWĪ SĀHIB-I do not believe in lexicons. However, all right, I accept. If Jesus has died, show his corpse. THE PROMISED MESSIAHAS-When death has been proven it is sufficient. Where are the corpses of Abraham and Moses? MAULAWI [ŞAHIB] - Where is the one-eyed Dajjal [Antichrist]? THE PROMISED MESSIAHAS-If you take things like this liter- ally, great difficulties will arise. The Holy Quran says whoever is blind in this world will also be blind in the Hereafter, so does this mean that all those who are blind will collectively go to Hell in any case, even though they commit the entire Quran to memory and are Muslims?