Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 423
19 September 1907 423 Then look at Char a gh-ud-D i n who made an extravagant claim and said that Jesus had given him a rod and then he con- tinued to pray fervently for my annihilation, but then he him- self was killed by the plague along with his sons. These are the narratives of these prophesiers, and the state of their visions and revelations is this that God tells them one thing, yet another thing takes place. These are not just one or two cases; there are many. I have mentioned them in Haqiqatul-Wahi [‘The Philosophy of Divine Revelations’] as an example. Look here! Ghulam Dastagir had written that just as with the supplication of the author of Majma‘-ul-Bi ha r the false mahdi of the time was destroyed, in the same way, with his sup- plication, the Mirza of Qadian will be cut off from his root. Then look! He himself was destroyed. These matters are not such as should just simply be ignored; rather, we should ponder over them. The Promised Messiah as said: In reality, as the disbelieving and idolatrous people desired to dismiss the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with jest and ridicule, in the same way they want to dismiss me through jest and ridicule. He himself would be sitting hiding timidly. In fact, there is a lot of jest and ridi- cule in Delhi. How can a faithful person use such words that that person is the true messiah who is mired in the idolatry of the Christians and worships a man. Just imagine, that being a Muslim, how he is dismissing his religion by way of jest and ridicule. Even the Aryas and others do not mock their religion