Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 373
2 May 1908 373 he comes for tax collection, but if someone does, he is declared a rebel and duly punished. Yet people are heedless of the Divine Government. It is true that those who come from God are clothed in humility. People look upon them with derision and disdain. They ridicule and mock them. But Allah the Exalted says: 1 ًةَرْسَحٰي ىَلَع ِداَبِعْلا١ۣۚ اَم ْمِهْيِتْاَي ْنِّم ٍلْوُسَّر اَّلِا اْوُناَك ٖهِب َنْوُءِزْهَتْسَي۠ ًةَرْسَحٰي ىَلَع ِداَبِعْلا١ۣۚ اَم ْمِهْيِتْاَي ْنِّم ٍلْوُسَّر اَّلِا اْوُناَك ٖهِب َنْوُءِزْهَتْسَي۠ Allah the Exalted is truthful and does not lie. He says that all Prophets who came, from Adam to the last one, have been ridi- culed and mocked. However, when time passes, people begin to glorify them. Almost 200 ulema of his time issued a fatwa [reli- gious verdict] of apostasy against Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, may Allah have mercy upon him. Ibn Jawzi, who was a scholar of Hadith of his time, wrote a book and titled it Talbis Iblis, and used much bitter and unseemly words against him. Yet, the whole world knows how he [Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani] was acknowledged as a wonderfully accomplished and pious man, and how he was acclaimed far and wide just a couple of hun- dred years after his demise. He is not alone in this. All saintly people have received the same treatment. So, on this same pattern, all the ulema of the Punjab and India have bestowed upon me the titles of kafir [disbeliever], dajjal [deceiver], fasiq [transgressor], fajir [sinner], etc. They claim that I—God forbid—abuse the Prophets, whereas I hold all Prophets in great esteem, and it is to manifest their grandeur and truth that I have, in fact, been sent. Know for certain that if I am not from God and I am indeed a liar, then no one can prove the prophethood of any of 1. Alas for mankind! there comes not a Messenger to them but they mock at him ( S u rah Y a S i n, 36:31). [Publisher]