Scattered Pearls — Page 57
56 causes and effects in such cases. As the Promised Messiah has explained, it only means that in such cases Allah brings to bear on the matter such fine and imperceptible factors as remain invisible to the human eye but are at work all the same, with the result that for the time being the chain of material and evident causation appears to have been superceded. (Malfoozaat, Vol. I, page 114). So that, with great force and emphasis, the Promised Messiah has said that even if Allah, in His. Wisdom, in a case of extraodinary and over-riding importance, actually cooled the flames into which Abraham was thrown by his enemies, there was nothing surprising or incredible in it. The Promised Messiah was an Apostle of Allah and was, therefore, gifted with exceptional understanding in such matters; but this truth is such that even the knowing people of lesser eminance in the Ummat of the Holy Prophet Muhammad have openly subscribed to the correctness of this view. And the Promised Messiah on this point not only reiterated a view held by all knowing people among the followers of the Holy Prophet, but like the true Reformer he was, he also asserted and claimed with the greatest confidence: "The time of Abraham is gone and is now a thing of the past; but we are now present in this world. Let an enemy throw us into fire. By the grace of God, cool on us as well. " the flames shall go (Seeratul Mahdee, Riwaayat 147). The Promised Messiah has thrown light on this point in one of his poems as well. Says he: "O ignorant man, these schemes. And conspiracies of thine. Can do no harm to me ;. For indeed I bear a life. That shall come safe and sound. Even out of roaring flames ! ' وو (Tatimmah Haqeetul Wahyee)