Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 536
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 536 How far can logic and reasoning assist a man and how far can he go with only its help? God is very much present and alive. And just as He showed His handiwork in the past, it is incumbent that He shows His handiwork now too. Why is it that only past miracles are believed in and quoted? Has God now become old? Or has He lost His ability to speak? Or has His might, support, and omnipotence come to an end? Present-day philosophers do not believe in these things, but I have had personal experience in these matters. Just as Signs were manifested in the past, they are made manifest today as well. God still assists and helps His chosen ones and supports them with revelation and inspiration as He did before. If your doctrine is accepted that there is no more revelation and com- munication and God has become a corpse, then what can be expected from a corpse? Can a corpse revive another corpse? Can a blind individual show the path to another blind person? Verily I say to you that God is as alive as He was in the time of the Holy Prophet s as. God had promised to take us to a spe- cific station. Would He now abandon us in the middle of the path? Let us say, as an example, that someone promised a blind person that he would help him reach Calcutta or Madras but deserted him half way—now he is neither here nor there. Is this fair? Is this not cruelty? We cannot possibly accuse God of such a crime—that while He made the promise that He would continue to raise Khulafa [Successors] and Mujaddids [Reformers] till the Day of Judgement but that He stopped doing so after a certain period of time. Read the verse about Khilafat [Successorship] in S u rah an-N u r with careful deliberation. I, too, have come according to the promise given therein. And this is why I am called the Promised One. It is not that the very same previous Messiah