Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 515
17 May 1908 515 The teaching of the New Testament is [applicable to] only one branch. Are the other human faculties useless? Bear in mind that all faculties of a human being have been granted to him by that very same Being who is the Creator of nature. Among these faculties, one faculty is indeed that of anger and another is that of revenge. These faculties are not useless nor without purpose. It is their misuse and their appli- cation at the wrong time and the wrong occasion that is bad. At one place in the New Testament there is even the injunc- tion to become celibate. If true Christians had followed this injunction, the world would certainly have come to an end. The strange thing is that this is not just an injunction, but there is promise of very great reward for acting upon it. Then, why is it that no Christian takes part in this pious deed? Can anyone show that the Holy Quran has given any such command that is beyond the power of man to carry out, or has given some such order by acting upon which there would neces- sarily result some harm or that could possibly cause disorder in the workings of the world? Can a scripture that includes injunc- tions that are beyond human capacity [to implement] or whose implementation would entail some harm and would result in disruption of the functioning of the world, be attributed to the God who is the Creator of human nature, Controller of the sys- tem of the universe, and is the Knower of the very capability of human faculties; and can such a book deserve to be called a complete and comprehensive shariah? My intent from this statement is not to criticize, but it is to point out that both these books were meant only for one family [of Israelites]. Neither Jesus as nor Moses as ever claimed that they had come as Messengers for the whole world. On the contrary, they confined their teaching to the Sheep of Israel. Their own