Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 166
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 166 that a guest has a right as he has undertaken difficulties to come. Therefore, I have come out to discharge this right. The Attitude of the Scholars of the Age The Promised Messiah as said: It is God’s will that the ulema of the age have issued a fatwa [religious edict] concerning our Movement without inquiry or attempt at understanding and have declared us to be worse even than the Christians. They should have first investigated my circumstances and read my books properly and thereafter should have acted in accordance with justice. It is astonishing that these people are still oblivious to the condition of Islam. It is as if they have no idea whatsoever what bind Islam is in. The internal condition of Islam is also bad at this time and the external condition is deteriorating as well. The Life & Death of Jesus The entire emphasis of these people is on this one thing that Hadrat ‘ I s a [ Jesus] is sitting in heaven alive, while they fail to reflect that it is written in the Holy Quran that he has died. And the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has provided testimony that he had seen him [ Jesus] among the dead. The word tawaffi ی تَوَفّ ی تَوَفّ occurs first in the Holy Quran and then َ رَفَع َ رَفَع [ rafa‘a ] follows it. 1 It should also be con- 1. From al- H akam : ‘They are fixated on the word َ رَفَع َ رَفَع [ rafa‘a ] whereas the passing away of Jesus, peace be on him, has been mentioned in the Holy Quran time and again. ’ ( Al- H akam , vol. 11, no. 9, p. 10, dated 17 March 1907)