Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 41
Malfuzat - Volume I day which will turn children grey-headed? On that day the heaven will be rent asunder and His promise will be fulfilled. 41 In other words, just as was the case when God sent Mosesas, in the time of the Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the disbelievers of Arabia were full of traits that resembled Pharaoh. They too, like Pharaoh, did not refrain from transgression until they witnessed a sign of glory. The work of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was like that of Mosesas. Apparently, it would seem that the work of Moses as was not commendable, but the Holy Quran established otherwise. In the era of Moses, on whom be peace, although the Children of Israel were saved from Pharaoh, they were not delivered from sin. They fought and developed crooked hearts, and even attacked Moses as himself. But our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, granted true and complete salvation. If the Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had not secured strength, grandeur and rule for Islam, the Muslims would forever remain oppressed and would not have been saved from the hands of the disbelievers. And so, one form of deliverance granted by Allah Almighty was that an independent Islamic sovereignty was established and another was that Muslims were blessed with deliverance from sin. God Almighty has illustrated both conditions to describe what the state of the Arabs was like in the beginning and how it was transformed. If both states are compared, the initial condition can be fully realised. Hence, Allah the Exalted blessed the Muslims with both forms of salvation. They were delivered from Satan and also from worldly oppression. The Rank of the Holy Prophets and His Companions The sincerity and purity demonstrated by the Holy Prophetsa and his noble com- panions is unparalleled. They did not hesitate in even laying down their lives. Jesus as was not confronted with any real difficulty. None of his people rejected the concept of revelation. What is so difficult in exhorting a few from one's own kinsfolk? The Jews had already read the Torah and believed in it; they already believed in God as being One and without partner. At times a person thinks: what did the Messiah (as) come to do anyway? Even today, the Jews possess indigna- tion for the Unity of God. At most, one could perhaps say that there were certain moral deficiencies that had crept into them. But the teaching, nonetheless, was already present in the Torah. Despite the facility that his people already believed