Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 14
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 14 and Messengers, and (God forbid) would start claiming Divinity for himself, and at times he would consider himself as the intermediary and intercessor between Creator and creation and that people were dependent upon him, and then he would say he did not care at all and was not in need of anyone. He said that some Signs would be mani- fested by him in the future. Even more baffling was that he would also address the Promised Messiah as and say, ‘I believe you to be the Messiah and the Mahdi, and to be a great Imam the like of whom has never appeared before nor would ever appear in the future. ’ At the same time, he would also claim to be a follower of the Holy Prophet s as. In short, he would utter one sentence that would seem to mean that he regarded himself to be better and more pure natured than the entire world and, with it, narrate strange visions of every kind for the be-all and end-all of discourses, and then, in the course of his conversation, he would start to describe himself as humble and worthless and so on. In short, the poor man (may God, of His grace and munificence, have mercy on him) was caught in convoluted enigmas. He was also advanced in self-praise and arrogance. He was preoccupied with strange ups and downs while seemingly pursuing the stages [of spirit- uality] that were defined in the medieval ages. Even more of a crisis was that he had begun to regard himself as someone with a [spiritual] stature and had climbed many steps in self-aggrandizement and glori- fication. For this reason, Ahmadis of that area, considering him to be unhinged and insane, had removed him from leading the Prayers and considered it to be improper to offer the Prayer under his leadership. After hearing this kind of account of Saeen [Alam Din], the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him) observed: