Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 520
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 520 understand this secret of Tauhid that has been conveyed through the statement, ‘You recognize God through the one who comes from God. ’ The one who comes from God is as if God has come Himself. When we look at worldly governments, one who comes from them is their representative. Similarly, a Prophet, after surrendering himself completely to God, is no longer the same person—rather, it is God Himself [in his guise]. Therefore, the sentence ِّٰ مُحَمَّد ٌ رَّسُوْل ُ الل [‘Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’] was essential for the perfection of Tauhid. God likes Tauhid and it is indeed a cause for gratitude that this distinction is found only in Islam that we present in this age. It is not present in any other religion. The Christians can reach only so far as the sacrifice of Jesus for Atonement—that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three, but don’t say that they are three, say they are one. This is a strange enigma that is beyond comprehension. The Jews are also very hard-hearted and are mired in many kinds of shirk , and they are not even concerned about it. It is the belief of the Aryas of this age, who are so boastful and proud of their doctrines that oppose Islam, that the soul with all its attributes and matter with all its attributes exist on their own account and they maintain that nothing can come into existence from non-existence. In other words, they have made every particle a partner of God. They do admit that physical faculties of man are from God but contend that the faculties that a soul has are its own and not from God. They believe that souls and particles, with all their qualities, are self-existent. The task of God was only to put them together; however, I ask, ‘Why shouldn’t we believe that their ability to unite with each other [soul with matter] is also their own?’ So, they deny any fresh miracles and there is no mention of