Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 82
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 82 God Almighty has Sent me as the Mujaddid of this Century And it is matter of great joy that God Almighty has not left Islam helpless during such a time. He has sent me in accordance with His law so that I may restore it to life. But it is a matter of astonishment and sorrow that even though the condition of the age called for a Mujaddid [Reformer], and if the maulaw i s are asked they acknowledge that it is a promise of God Almighty that a Mujaddid will appear upon every century, 1 but when they are asked to identify the Mujaddid of this century, they do not respond whereas twenty-four years of this century have elapsed. And when I put forth [the claim] that God has sent me as the Mujaddid of this age, they deny me and say that the Dajj a l [Antichrist] has come, and they also say that not one but thirty Antichrist are about to appear. 2 Alas! Despite this extreme distress was it only Dajj a l that you were apportioned. Is it also written somewhere that in ear- lier times Mujaddids would appear, but in the fourteenth cen- tury, which is the century of the greatest mischiefs, the Dajj a l would come? The present condition is openly proclaiming aloud that reformation is needed, but these [ maulaw i s ] desire yet more disorder. It is a firmly established matter that when transgression and sin spreads on the earth, Almighty Allah sends someone for reformation, and now that condition had 1. In Sunan Ab i D awu d, Kit a bul-Mal ah im, B a b m a Yudhkaru f i Qarnil-Mi’ati, Hadith 4291; it is written as: نَهَا ی ِ ُجَدِّد ُ لَهَا د ی ْ ُل ِّ مِائَة ِ سَنَة ٍ مَن ک ِ رَأْس ی َ ُمَّة ِ عَل ْأ اَل َبْعَث ُ لِهَذِه ِ ا ی َ إِن َّ هللا نَهَا ی ِ ُجَدِّد ُ لَهَا د ی ْ ُل ِّ مِائَة ِ سَنَة ٍ مَن ک ِ رَأْس ی َ ُمَّة ِ عَل ْأ اَل َبْعَث ُ لِهَذِه ِ ا ی َ إِن َّ هللا. [Publisher] 2. From Badr: ‘What is the reason that at the head of this century even that Hadith became falsified, which had been proven correct for thirteen hundred years?’ ( Badr, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 13, dated 17 January 1907)