Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 47
47 Malfuzat – Volume IV َ َك ِئِ ْا ََک َ ِر ُ َش ِْفِْی َ � َاْل ِ َا َ َك ِئِ ْا َ ْع ُ َد َ �َُّل َک ُِْیُْب ُج ُ َا I shall accept all your prayers except in the matter of your collaterals. Therefore, I trust wholeheartedly and believe with certainty that my prayers are accepted more than anyone else in the world. This book will be a sign because no one will have the ability to refute it. This will be a powerful sign in the hands of my community. I seek to completely break the claim of the Arabs that they are unparalleled in literary prowess, eloquence and rhetoric. These people who write in newspapers and deem themselves experts in the language and masters of litera - ture after writing a few lines, can take up their pens and compete, and then they will see. Their pens will be broken. If they possess any power and strength, they ought to compete with me, either individually or together as one. Thus, they will come to know and the secret will be disclosed to those among the ignorant who assert that I pay thousands of rupees to have my books written for me by Arabs. Now we will come to know which Arab has the ability to write such an eloquent and articulate book, replete with such verities and divine insights. The books written by authors who claim to be masters of literature and composition may be likened to stones of various types—hard, brittle, black and white all gathered together. However, my work is a well-arranged exquisite and eloquent exposition comprising various parts from among the verities and divine insights of the Holy Quran. Therefore, the sweetness of that which is written with the help of the Holy Spirit and such words that are inspired by it are mixed with a grandeur and power that others are unable to contest. Therefore, this will be a most magnificent sign. ” Then, whilst on the subject of recording the objections that have been raised on the life of the Messiah, and on providing a rebuttal to the allegations levelled by the Jews and freethinkers, the Promised Messiah as said: “The objective in employing this method is to falsify the divinity of the Messiah. This doctrine is a grave injustice. As far as I am concerned—by the Power of God—from the very beginning even when I was a student, God had filled me with a zeal to refute this belief; as if this had been instilled in my very nature. When Reverend Pfander published his books in 1859 or 1860, I was a student of Maulvi Gul Ali Shah Sahib, whom my father had especially appointed as my teacher. At the time I was perhaps sixteen or seventeen years of age when I had the opportunity to see his book Mizan-ul-Haqq. A Hindu who studied in the same class as me praised p. 319