Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 241
241 Malfuzat – Volume IV The True Reviver of the Dead When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was sent to the world, all of the land and sea was filled with corruption. He came and reformed many who had become degenerate. This is not a matter to be seen with a cursory glance; this possesses magnificent points of finer truth. It shows the greatness and grandeur of the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, because only a holy and righteous person of the highest degree can reform another person. A person whose own spiritual influence is not at the highest level of excellence, and who has not developed a power within themselves to dispel the effect of every impurity, cannot reform others. Of course, in their own eras, all the Prophets reformed their own people and set them right, but the remarkable and outstanding form of reformation brought about by our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, cannot be matched by the ref - ormation brought about by anyone else. In fact, reformations brought about by others pale in comparison. Moses, peace be upon him, was unable to fully reform his crooked people and the Messiah also could not truly change even a few dis - ciples. Therefore, in comparison to this, when one looks at the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, one must openly confess that there is only one who has given life to hundreds and thousands and millions of the dead. If there is a Reviver, it is Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Liars are the ones who say that the Messiah gave life to the dead. He could not even fully revive a few disciples and they always remained before him like dead corpses, as it were. I am always astonished—and truly this is something that is quite astonishing indeed—when I think that what sort of a life can one give to another if they are ultimately destined to die. It is an entirely false notion to sug - gest that a mortal can give life to another person in physical terms. If the meaning and essence of ‘giving life’ was not something other than the physical, then why would God Almighty state: 1 َ ِت ْلَْمَْوْ ا َْھَا ْي َ ُل َ ِع ي ٰ ِض َ ُق ْ ْي َِتِ ْل ُ ا َك ِ ْس ْ َم ُ ْي َفَ And then He retains those against which He has decreed death. This demonstrates that the expression of ‘giving life’ in the present context is some - thing other than the physical. Otherwise, this would result in a contradiction, 1 az-Zumar , 39:43 p. 507