Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 176
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 176 The Second Coming of Jesus The other part relates to his second coming and that, Allah the Exalted has Himself made manifest, with heavenly Signs and Divine help, and by daily making us advance and the enemies decline. A torrent and waves of the sea of help and support are coming from God Almighty. No one can combat them. Fresh Signs and plentiful and powerful prophecies impact the hearts and they have been the cause of my progress. Superficial sto- ries, which have become the mainstay of religion, cannot bring about such a change. What progress can be achieved by the old anecdotes that these clerics have in the form of stories and fables? Rather, these are the reason for the decline. It is remarkable that these people used to cry from their pul- pits that the thirteenth century was accursed. The fourteenth century would bring blessings and bounties and the Imam Mahdi and the Promised Messiah would appear in this century. Siddiq Hasan Khan has proven in his book, on the basis of say- ings of many saintly people of God, that all of them were unan- imous that the Messiah who was to come would appear in the fourteenth century. I cannot comprehend what has happened to these people now. Mere Verbal Bai’at has No Value at All What really matters is that one should try to purify oneself. Mere verbal affirmation that one has done the Bai’at has no value at all until something is shown by way of actions. The tongue on its own can do nothing. It is stated in the Holy Quran: