Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 167
10 February 1908 167 10 February 1908 (At the time of Zuhr) The Exaggeration of Shias The Promised Messiah as said: The Shias exaggerate to the extreme. One Shia writes in his book that all Prophets—so much so that even the Holy Prophet s as —are in need of the shafa’at [intercession] of Imam Husain ra. Then they allege that revelation had descended upon Hazrat Ali ra , but angel Gabriel made a mistake. It is also writ- ten that when the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, went on the Mi’raj [Spiritual Ascension], Hazrat Ali ra was already present there, and a person referred to Hazrat Ali ra as God, whereupon he replied that well, there are hun- dreds of thousands of servants of God, you be the one for me. In other words Hazrat Ali ra is made out to be God. It is strange that in the heavens Ali is God, but upon the earth he is but a single disciple of the Holy Prophet s as who could not even properly handle a simple Khilafat [Successorship of the Holy Prophet s as ]. I cannot understand what kind of Islam people find in the Shia religion. They [the Shias] consider all the Companions of the Holy Prophet s as , barring a few, to be apostates; they harshly criticize the Ummahatul-Mo’minin [Mothers of the Believers; i. e. the wives of the Holy Prophet s as ]; they declare the Quran to be the account book of [Hazrat] Uthman—what faith can a