The Magnificent Services of The Just Imam, The Promised Messiah — Page 38
Magnificent Services of the Just Imam, the Promised Messiah as , to Reform the Mutual Controversies and Distorted Beliefs of the Muslims [ 38 ] described by them as the princess of chastity! Is this your Quran? And are these your concepts of the Prophets of God? If so, then we do not have any hesitation in saying our Quran is different from yours and our Prophets are different from yours. Your concepts, theories and beliefs have nothing to do with those concepts that are given to us by the Promised Messiah as. In Tafs i r R uh ul-Ma‘ a n i, Allamah Alusi has refuted several kinds of these of stories. In summary, these episodes assert that Hadrat Y u suf as was fully prepared for adultery with Zulaikha. Then God sent his father [Ya‘q u b as ], that he may be ashamed to commit this act in front of his father, but Y u suf as could not be persuaded otherwise. These kinds of outrageous stories have been mentioned in Tafs i r Jal a lain as well as in J a mi‘ul Bay a n. So, if the person who is considered the prince of chastity and modesty could not resist the temptations of an older seduc tress, then how can the people who are not Prophets—be they saints or other holy personages—resist such temptations? What would be the state of their chas- tity? Do you see how they have transgressed all bounds in commenting on the Quran? Now, when the Imam who is just and wise has come and has cleansed the Holy Quran from all such damaging interpretations and has shown its true beauty and light, we, t h e f o l l o w e r s o f t h a t I m a m , a r e a c c u s e d o f misinterpretations. They claim that we have a different