Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 234
234 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad for this holy land and its environs to be cleansed of their beings once and for all. However, this man was: 1 َِْيَْن َم َ ُل ٰ ُع ْ ُل ِ ْل ً ِة َْمَ ُح َ ُر A mercy for all peoples. He was a man that held true to the words: 2 ٍ ُم ِْيْ ُظ َ ِع ٍ ٌق ُُلُ َخ ْي َٰلٰ ُع َ ْل ََِّنََك ا You surely possess high moral excellences. So, even though he possessed full power and authority over his enemies who were worthy of being executed, he proclaimed: 3 ِم َْوْ ْي ْلْ ا َْيُْكُُمُ ُل َ ِع َ ٍب ْ ُي َِْثِْر َّت َا ْل No blame shall lie on you this day. The Christ of the Gospels Now, the Christian priests should tell us where we should look to find such an example of moral excellence in the Messiah? Where can we find an example like that of the Holy Prophet sas from the life of the Messiah, when according to the Christian belief, he was always the subject of physical abuse and had no place to lay his head? This is not my belief, and I cannot imagine that a Prophet and a man appointed by God Almighty could ever be in such a humiliating and deprived state, but the hallmark of a man is his morals. However, in the life of the teacher himself who taught that one should turn the other cheek when slapped on the first, we find no practical example of this ‘moral quality. ’ While he instructed others to refrain from abusive language, he himself called the holy Scribes and Pharisees among the Jews, adulterers, vipers and the brood of vipers. In contrast, the Jews possessed better morals than the Messiah for they would address him as ‘worthy teacher,’ but he would refer to them as adulterers and liken them to dogs and swine—even though the Scribes and Pharisees would ask him questions in a soft and gentle manner. Even in terms of worldly honour, they were given seats in the Roman government. The questions of such people 1 al-Anbiya , 21:108 2 al-Qalam , 68:5 3 Yusuf , 12:97