Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 213
213 God Almighty is that there will always be division in the world until the Day of Resurrection. As such, this reality has been mentioned in the Holy Quran very clearly. What teaching can be more perfect than the Holy Quran? It contains the greatest signs and blessings of all others which are fresh and living in every era. If the divine law was not as I have described, then every nation of the world ought to have accepted these signs and blessings. Even in the very era of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, there was another group as well. Just as the Prophet sa was perfect, so too was his Book perfect, but people like Abu Jahl and Abu Lahab among others, derived no benefit whatsoever and continued to proclaim: 1 ُ ُّـرَاد ی ٌ ء ْ لَشَي اِنَّ هٰذَا Meaning, this is a worldly enterprise. Further, even Allah the Exalted states: 2 َ ُوْن ء ِ بِهٖ يَسْتَهْز كَانُوْا َاْتِيْهِمْ مِّنْ رَّسُوْلٍ اِلَّا ی الْعِبَادِمَا ی َ ٰحَسْرَةً عَل ی Alas for My servants! there comes not a Messenger to them but they mock at him. Allah the Exalted has used the word maa in this verse to express what is known in Arabic grammar as a restrictive case (hasr), and this clearly demonstrates that an individual who is truthful is definitely mocked and ridiculed; if this were not the case, the word of God would be false. Hence, one sign of the truthful is that those of worldly bent, who possess a superficial mindset, mock and deride such people, as was done with Adam as , as was done with Noah as , as was done with Moses as and the Messiah as , and as was done with our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. So, too, it was necessary for me to be treated in the same man- ner. My purpose in these comments was to express that my claim is seen to be a matter of wonder, like the claims of those divinely commissioned ones who came in the past. Moreover, it was destined that I too would be treated in the same manner that the creature-worshippers of the past treated the divinely commis- sioned in previous times, because this is the law of God. You have come here and since there is no telling how long one will live—anyone who expects a long life and remains unconcerned with death is a fool—so this is why I must say all this to disseminate the truth. I do not care whether anyone accepts or not, my purpose 1 Sad, 38:7 2 Yasin, 36:31 p. 195