Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 241
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 241 When Maulaw i Muhammad Husain Batalwi, who was proudly saying that he persuaded Nuruddin ra so much that he had to accept his defeat, heard the words of Miy a ń Nizam D i n he flared up and said angrily, “Who was so foolish to ask you to go to Mirza Sahib. In two months I brought Nuruddin ra to A ha d i th with great struggle, and again you have turned the direction of the debate towards the Quran. ” He [Miy a ń Nizam D i n] was a noble man, and when he heard this, he remained quiet for some time wonderstruck. Then he addressed him, “O Maulaw i Sahib, if there is no proof of the physical life of ‘ I sa as (Jesus Christ), then where there is the Quran, there am I. ” Saying this he went to the Promised Messiah as and took his Bai‘at. Now look how Allah, the Almighty clarified this fact to the Promised Messiah as that ‘ I sa as (Jesus Christ) had died, and while proving this with reason from the Quran and A ha d i th , he said, “If you bring even one verse against it, I am ready to abandon my belief. ” Can anybody say that it means the Promised Messiah as (God forbid) did not have absolute certainty about it, and that he had any thought of any verse against his own beliefs? If anybody presumes it, he will be a great fool, because when he asked to bring even a single verse to show the physical living of ‘ I sa as (Jesus Christ) he would abandon his belief, it was said to keep in view the greatness and nobleness of the Holy Quran. It was his objective that he would abandon his belief if it were contrary to a single verse