Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 46
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 46 The Essence of the Throne [of Allah] Some consider the Arsh to be something that has been created. They are in error. They need to understand that the Arsh is not something that can be called a creation. It is the beyond of the beyond station of the sanctity and transcendence [of God]. Some imagine that God is sitting on the Arsh just like a king sitting on a throne. This necessitates God to be finite. They should bear in mind that there is no mention in the Holy Quran that the Arsh is like a throne on which God is seated. If—God forbid— Arsh is understood to mean a throne, how would those verses be interpreted where it is stated that God encompasses everything; or that wherever there are three, the fourth there is their God 1 and wherever there are four, the fifth there is their God? 2 Then it is written that: 3 ُبَرْقَا ِهْيَلِا ْنِم ِلْبَح ِدْيِرَوْلا ُنْحَن ُنْحَن ُبَرْقَا ِهْيَلِا ْنِم ِلْبَح ِدْيِرَوْلا and 4 َو َوُه ْمُكَعَم َنْيَا اَم ْمُتْنُك َو َوُه ْمُكَعَم َنْيَا اَم ْمُتْنُك Thus, it should be remembered well that the 1. From Badr: The ignorant do not realize that if on the one hand, it is men- tioned in the Quran: ُنٰمْحَّرلَا ىَلَع ِشْرَعْلا ىٰوَتْسا ُنٰمْحَّرلَا ىَلَع ِشْرَعْلا ىٰوَتْسا [‘ He is the Gracious God Who has set- tled Himself on the Throne,’ ( S u rah Ta H a , 20:6)] then on the other hand it is also said ‘There are no three persons where He is not the fourth, and there are no five persons, where He is not the sixth’ [58:8]. Moreover, He says that ‘I am with you wherever you may be’ ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 5, dated 9 January 1908). 2. It shows that sometimes the scribes do not record the exact words of the Promised Messiah as but write down its purport and their own understanding [of the subject]. What Badr has written is according to the verse of the Holy Quran. Al- H akam, on the other hand, seems to have mentioned four after three according to his own understanding. The Promised Messiah as must have said what is mentioned in Badr as that is what corresponds with the verse of the Holy Quran. ([Maulana Jalal-ud-Din] Shams) 3. And We are nearer to him than even his jugular vein ( S u rah Q a f, 50:17). [Publisher] 4. And He is with you wheresoever you may be ( S u rah al- H ad i d, 57:5). [Publisher]