Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 542
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 542 outside the pale of Islam; and that anyone who exchanges the greetings of peace with me, or shakes hands with me, or gives me audience becomes a kafir [disbeliever] as well. This apostasy is contagious and the entire Community is a body of apostates. It is a pity that the one who is ever ready to rejuvenate and serve the exemplary life of the Holy Prophet s as and his religion, is abused with filthy language, and is given most foul names. I have chests full of their filthy abusive writings. At times I have received an unstamped letter, for which I had to pay postage, only to find that it has nothing but curses and abuses from beginning to end. They are known as maulawis [Muslim clergy] but hurl such filthy and obscene curses like the low class and crude, that one feels ashamed even reading them. And yet they claim that Islam is in need of no one because the Quran is there and the maulawis are there [to defend it]. Little do they know that their maulawis —who are the shepherds of these sheep— are themselves the wolves! What a perilous situation the flock is in, which does not have a shepherd. Islam is being attacked from within and without and is being thrashed. Indeed, there was an urgent need for someone to clear the path by removing misunderstandings and enigmas, and by solving complex issues, and to present the original light and genuine brilliance of Islam to other nations. There was a time when Christians boasted that the Holy Prophet s as had no prophecy or miracles to his credit, and now no one dares to come face me even when I have been challenging them. This, indeed, was the will of God Almighty. He attended to and provided help to His Religion in a timely manner in accordance with His promise: