A Sign of Allah - Chaudhry Muhammad Zafrulla Khan — Page 10
A Sign of Allah 10 Why is this so? It is because it is a natural result of their obedience to the Holy Prophet s as that they are bestowed such a status. In order to draw attention towards this point, in the third verse, the Holy Prophet s as is made to announce that, “I am a kalimah gar or one through whom kalim a t are created. Before this, I was just a man as you are, an average person like you. [But now that I am a kalimah gar ], if you form a bond with me, if you follow me and start to perform good deeds like the ones I have performed, and if you attach your - self to the oneness of God, the way I have firmly attached myself to it, then the blessings of the revelation of God that make one a kalimah will also begin to be bestowed upon you. This is because I, the Holy Prophet s as , have not come to limit this blessing to myself. I have in fact come to draw attention towards it so that by seeing me, you develop a desire and a longing for this blessing. So that you may develop a yearning to form a bond with Allah the Almighty and that as a result of this you may perform good works, and may follow in my footsteps, and may become pure in your belief in the oneness of God to whatever extent it is possible for you. Then witness how the kalim a t of God are limitless and these kalim a t can never be finished. ” Another aspect of this is that the process of the endowment of blessings from God is also a never-end - ing process. Allah the Almighty has also presented the Promised Messiah as as a living example and an embodiment of this verse in this day and age. And the spiritual power of the