Reply to a Mockery — Page 59
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 59 In these verses Allah likens the believers to two women, i. e. the wife of Pharaoh and Mary, daughter of Imran. Now Maulaw i Sahib feels that being likened to Mary is highly offensive. If someone calls him Mary, he might hit him hard. So now only two options are open to him. Either he can be likened to the wife of Pharaoh, or to the two other women mentioned in the above verses, i. e. the wife of Lot and the wife of Noah. The choice is his. As for being likened to Mary, this is a divine mercy bestowed upon the true believers who reach a high station in the sight of Allah. They become worthy of fulfilling in their persons the Word of their Lord and His Books, and they become completely obe- dient to Him. This is the point where Nafkh-e-R uh (breathing in of the Holy Spirit) occurs, and it is here that Allah speaks directly to such persons, elevating them to the rank known as the rank of Jesus as. Many Muslim saints claim to have achieved this status. For example Hadrat Sheikh Mu‘ i n-ud-D i n Chisht i Ajmeri rta made the following well-known claim: ددبمم روح ادقلس ادنر ےنعم ےم ددم ٰی اثین دشم ع�یس م رگم نم ی � و � م�یگ � � نم The Holy Spirit is resplendent in my soul at all times. I say it not, but in truth, I am the second Jesus as. Similarly, Sh a h Niy a z Ahmad rta Dehlav i says: ی منم یم � ٰی رم ع�یس I am the Jesus who was born of Mary. ( D i w a n-e-Niy a z, Beniyar Shah Ahmad p. 54, Ma t ba‘ Agra Akhbar Agra Jam a diyyul-Awwal, 1348)