Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 582
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 582 It is sad that these so-called Muslims provide their enemy the ammunition for their own humiliation. Remember that if this had been the will of God Almighty and if this was what He had mentioned in the Holy Quran and Hadith that in reality Jesus as is alive and he is sitting in Heaven with his physical body, and if this belief had been true in the knowledge of God as was the fatherless birth of Jesus as , then Allah the Exalted would have certainly provided some precedent for it to block and shut off the Christians from using this point as an argument for the Divinity of Jesus as. But because God has not provided any prec- edent for this phenomenon, it is quite evident that the mean- ing you are ascribing to the Word of God is merely your fabri- cation and it was never the intent of God. 1 On the contrary, God Almighty has coined this word ْ ِّی تَوَف ْ ِّی تَوَف [ tawaffi ] only to mean death , and this indeed is the truth and the reality of the matter. Look, whenever any unique distinction has been conceived for any particular person anywhere, Allah the Exalted has pro- vided an answer concerning it without fail. So, what is the rea- son that He hasn’t responded to such an impressive distinction? A distinction is indeed such a thing that can give rise to shirk [associating partners with God]. This was the last address by the Promised Messiah as in his life that he delivered with great passion and special fervour. During this speech his face was so bright and refulgent that it was not possible to behold it. 1. From Badr: Similarly, the Christians present [Jesus] being alive in Heaven as an argument for him being the Son of God. Why did God not provide a prec- edent for this so that Jesus could not be considered unique without anyone comparable to him in any way? You must let Jesus die as there is life in this for Islam. Similarly, let the Muhammadan Jesus come instead of the Mosaic Jesus for the glory of Islam lies in it. Verily I tell you that if there is no continua- tion of revelation and communication with God in Islam, then Islam has died ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 22, p. 7, dated 2 June 1908).