Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 334
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 334 Look, just as Jesus as came fourteen hundred years after Moses as , similarly, the Promised Messiah has come precisely fourteen hundred years after the Holy Prophet s as. And just as Jesus as was the Khatamul-Khulafa [Seal of the Successors] of the Mosaic dispensation, so will the Promised Messiah as be the Khatamul-Khulafa here as well. Islam was akin to a sick person whose cup of life was all but filled to the brim. Islam was oppressed. The enemies are brutally attacking it from all sides with all their weapons to destroy and annihilate it. Islam had become lifeless during this time and was barely alive due to internal and external attacks. The flame of Islam was about to be blown out and its throat was being slit with great brutality. For what time then was this promise of Allah the Exalted that: 1 اَّنِا ُنْحَن اَنْلَّزَن َرْكِّذلا َو اَّنِا ٗهَل َنْوُظِفٰحَل اَّنِا ُنْحَن اَنْلَّزَن َرْكِّذلا َو اَّنِا ٗهَل َنْوُظِفٰحَل Was there any other calamity left that had yet to befall Islam? Remember forever! The promise of preservation does not only apply to the written word alone. This has been expounded upon in a hadith in which the Holy Prophet s as said that a time would come when the Holy Quran would be lifted from the world. A Companion ra asked how would it be lifted from the world when the people would still be reciting the Quran? He replied, ‘I considered you to be a wise man but you are very naive. Do the Christians not recite the New Testament? And do the Jews not recite the Torah?’ 2 What is meant by the lifting of the Holy Quran is that the 1. Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian ( S u rah al- H i jr , 15:10). [Publisher] 2. Mishk a t al-Ma sabih, Volume I, p. 68, Kit a bul-‘Ilm, Hadith 276, D a r Arqam bin Ab i Arqam, Beirut, Lebanon [Publisher]