Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 500
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 500 The Need for a Mujaddid The Promised Messiah as said: These scholars have greatly assisted the Christians with such ide- ologies. They attribute unique characteristics to Prophet Jesus as and say that such traits are not found in any other humans. The Christians are supported by this that when you say yourselves that such attributes are not found in any human, then it neces- sitates that he is God who possesses these attributes without sharing them with anyone else. Islam is facing two great trials at this time. The first is the external trial that many hundreds of thousands of people have apostatized and become Christians, and the rest roam around as semi-apostates. The gates to apostasy are open on all fronts. The second is the internal trial that the Muslims assist in this apostasy with their ideologies. Is there not a need for the advent of a Reformer at the time of this great trial? It is a rule that a person is granted a title according to the type of reformation they come for in the world. Because in this age the greater trial was of Christianity, therefore, the Reformer that was sent for its reformation, he was accordingly named the Messiah. 1 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 43, p. 7, dated 24 October 1907