Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 121
Mahzarnama 121 willed that in this day and age, the task of saif (sword) must be accomplished with pen, and the opponents must be repelled by written polemics. Therefore, now it does not behove anyone to try to retaliate against pen with the sword: "If you do not observe the priorities of rank, you act in disbelief. " [ Malfoozaat, New Edition, vol. 1, p. 37 ] "Know this for sure, that the need of the hour is indeed the pen, and not the sword. Our opponents have raised misgivings against Islam, and have tried to assail the true religion of Allah, the Exalted, by the use of various sciences and artifacts. This has persuaded me to don the armour of pen and enter the arena of science and advancement of knowledge, and provide miraculous evidence of the spiritual bravery and intrinsic power of Islam. How could a person like me have been a suitable contestant in this field?. But it is the pure grace of Allah, the Exalted, and His unbounded beneficence, that He would like to see the grandeur of His religion to become manifest at hands of a humble mortal like myself. Once I had the opportunity to count the enemy’s objections and attacks against Islam and, in my view and estimation, those numbered three thousand; and I think the count must have increased much beyond this number by now. Let no one labour under the misapprehension that Islam is founded on such a flimsy premise that three thousand objections can be levelled against it. No, that is definitely not so. These objections are objections only in the sight of the feeble-minded and the uninformed. But I tell you truly and honestly, that while I enumerated these objections I also found, upon deep reflection, that embedded under these objections are indeed priceless verities which were not visible to the objectors on account of their lack of spiritual vision. And such is the wisdom of God, the Exalted, that the points at which the visionless objectors have stumbled, a treasure of verities and profound truths lies hidden right underneath those points. " [ Malfoozaat, vol. 1, New Edition p. 38 ] "It is worthy of remembrance that the Holy Quran does not allow