Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 168
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 168 people, who do not have the Book of Allah, be said to possess! Can hurling vile abuse, and sitting at home and continuously reviling others and those who have passed away be called a reli- gion of any kind?’ Then there is [the doctrine of ] Taqiyyah , worse than which there can be nothing—disavow one’s faith wherever overpow- ered or when one sees his own interest being jeopardized. Then, tell me if they have any good commentary [of the Quran] from which it would become known whether these people are familiar with the Word of God. In every commen- tary I have seen, I found every verse being interpreted to imply that it was in support of Ali. The same obsession is found in regard to Muqatta’at, 1 the ك [ Kaf ] in 2 ٓصٓعٰيٰهٓك ٓصٓعٰيٰهٓك [ Kaf Ha Ya Ain Sad ] is said to mean Karbala. Then, the Oneness of God, which is the essence of Islam—even the Aryas, who are die-hard ene- mies of Islam, are better than them as they despise the worship of thousands of idols, but these people have started idolatry [in Islam] anew. It is one and the same whether someone worships a stone, a tree, or a human being. They may, of course, express the excellences of Imam Husain ra ; I do not forbid them, and to the extent that denying noble Prophets and disrespecting the righteous is not implicit, I am prepared to accept—but it cannot be that we make him to be God. If they really have love for Imam Husain ra , they should follow him. When one comes to love a person, one desires to 1. The Muqatta’at are Arabic letters that appear in the beginning of 28 Surahs. They appear in combinations of one to five letters, each letter representing an abbreviation for a particular attribute of God or any other such topic that is deeply relevant to the Surah at hand (For details see: Holy Quran, Arabic Text with English Translation & Short Commentary, by Malik Ghulam Farid, p. 17, note 16, published by Islam International Publications Ltd. , 2017). [Publisher] 2. S u rah Maryam, 19:2 [Publisher]