Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 114
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 114 Maulawis of this Age This was to be the last age—one that was to be full of darkness. It was the promise of God Almighty about this age that the sun would rise in this age. Maulawis [Muslim clerics] should con- sider the miserable plight of taqwa [righteousness] in this age. A person killed a child for only four rupees worth of jewellery. One should ask these maulawis, who issue the fatwas [religious verdicts] of apostasy against us, what is their reason for consid- ering us worse than everyone—Hindus, Christians, etc. ? Don’t we proclaim the Kalimah [creed of Islam]? The truth is that these maulawis are slaves to their own self- ish motives. It was well put when a person once said to me, ‘It was not so hard to silence these maulawis —had you called them all and given them a couple of rupees each, they would have become silent and none of them would have opposed you. ’ I told him that I had counted on their taqwa. Little did I know that they would turn out to be such slaves of their base self. They used to declare from the pulpit that it mattered little who Moses or Jesus even was. Little did I know that, despite reading out and making these sermons, they would get so infu- riated about the death of Jesus as if Islam was entirely depend- ent on the life of Jesus. The Final Battle with Satan But these people can do whatever they like. Now God Almighty has made the intention to destroy Satan. This is Satan’s last battle and he will certainly be destroyed. He will certainly be killed. Satan has also taken refuge in the life of Jesus, but with proof of the death of Jesus, Satan will also be killed. Satan has