Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 191
5 March 1908 191 Consider even my own nascent phase. In the very beginning I did not have even one person with me. Maulawi Muhammad Husain prepared a fatwa [religious verdict] of apostasy against me. He got two to three hundred seals of all the great and acclaimed maulawis of India from Peshawar to Banaras put upon it. And he issued the fatwa that killing us, plundering our property, and snatching our women is all permissible; and that these people are kafirs [disbelievers], akfar [the greatest of disbelievers], zall [misguided], muzill [one who misguides others], and worse even than the Jews and Christians. But look what he was able to achieve! See how God Almighty humili- ated him! Thus, one should strive to become a true believer. Consider the circumstances of the life of the Holy Prophet s as. What diffi- culties had to be faced in his time, but what amazing achieve- ments were accomplished by him and his Companions ra through their loyalty, sincerity, patience, and steadfastness! Know it for certain that even ten million cannons could not have achieved the feats they accomplished through their faith, sincerity, patience, and steadfastness. Never, ever could they have done so! Consider that he possessed no army nor can- nons, nor any soldiers; yet, what wonderful help Allah the Exalted provided, that the most powerful people were contin- uously vanquished one after another as if they were mere dust and dirt. It occurred to me that I have been called by the names of Mahdi, Jesus, and Krishna by Allah the Exalted. And it is for the arrival of these three that three great nations are waiting; Muslims for the Mahdi, Christians for the second advent of Jesus, and Hindus for the Avatar Krishna. So this is indeed the Divine wisdom in these names.