Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 319
21 July 1907 319 with the Holy Quran. If there was no need for a teacher of the Holy Quran, then why would it have been revealed to a Messenger? These people are blatantly presumptuous in that each one of them assigns himself the status of a Messenger and every one of them thinks as though the Holy Quran was revealed to him. It is outright audacity to believe and accept the meaning that a Chakrhalavi maulaw i attributes to the Holy Quran, but failing to give any consideration to the meaning that descended upon the Messenger of God. God Almighty has rendered man in need of the fact that there must be a Messenger, an Appointed One or a Mujaddid [Reformer] in their midst, but they desire that every one of them is a messenger, and they declare them- selves to be independent and without need. This is a great sin. A child is dependent on his parents etc. to learn to talk and start conversing, and then to study by attending lessons with a teacher. اجےئ ااتسد اخیل اتس [There is always a need for a teacher]. Chakrhalavis are deceptive saying, ‘How can the Quran be dependent [on something]? O ignorant ones! Are you also not dependant? Are you independent like the being of God? The Quran is not dependent on you but you are dependent upon reading, understanding, and learning the Quran. When you are in need of a teacher for the routine tasks of the world, why don’t you need a teacher for the Holy Quran? Will a child begin read- ing the Quran right after its birth? In all circumstances, there is a need for a teacher. If the mullah of a mosque can be our teacher, then why can’t the one upon whom the Holy Quran descended be our teacher? Observe, there are people assigned to understand and explain the laws of the Government despite the fact that these laws have no such insights and verities as are found the Holy Book of God. Remember that all spiritual lights lie in following the Noble