Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 7
7 that in this is the wisdom of God Almighty. It is the custom of God Almighty to prolong the lives of those who oppose the righteous so that this may add to the vibrancy of their dispensation. God Almighty possessed the power to strike Abu Jahl and others like him with a sudden and unexpected bolt of lightning while they were in Mecca, the Great, and He could have uprooted them before they were able to inflict any substantial injury. However, their designs and machina- tions, and they themselves, were not destroyed until the Day of Badr dawned. If such matters were dealt with swiftly, the Prophet would be done with his work in no time; but then how would the vibrant countenance of God shine forth as a result of the heated uproar of the opponents, and without which diverse forms of knowledge and wisdom could not be employed and brought forth? God Almighty does not let the truthful die until their truth is made manifest, and until He clears them of the charges levelled against them by the improvident. ” The Hadith About the Mahdi and Antichrist After Isha Prayer, the Promised Messiah as said: “Today I was reading through Kanz-ul-Ummal which contains eighty-five Hadith about the Mahdi and Antichrist. All of these Hadith state that as soon as the Mahdi comes, he will at once begin spilling blood and thus redden the face of the earth with the blood of humanity. Only God can know the degree to which these people, who have fabri- cated such Hadith, thirsted for cruelty, craved to take the lives of God’s creation, and how dense and shallow their minds had become. These people have failed to realise that it is never the case that a divinely commissioned one of God appears, and then, without fully conveying and clarifying the truth to the people, begins to immediately wield the sword to spill blood—this is diametrically opposed to the very principles of preaching and divine appointment. It is strange that, on the other hand, these very same people have declared that the age of the latter days is one that is distant from the era of the Best of Creation, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Now obviously, the further away an era grows from the era of prophethood, the malady of negligence, indolence and aversion to Allah becomes all the more severe. Yet, despite this, they assert that the reformer and divinely appointed one to appear in the latter days would be a man who, upon his very arrival, would immediately take up the sword and say not a single word to clinch the argument against those who disbelieve. What sort of a reformer is this? Such a person would be a bloodthirsty tyrant. p. 8