Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 268
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 268 The Likeness of the Messiah The Promised Messiah as said: I am surprised because my case was so very clear. There were three things. These people accepted that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was the like of Moses, and also admitted that the Ummah had become the like of the Jews. They also acknowledged that: 1 َ ِی ْ اِسْـرَآءِیْل ْن َ َب ِ َاَنْبِیَآء ك ْ ِی ََت عُلَمَآء ُ اُم َ ِی ْ اِسْـرَآءِیْل ْن َ َب ِ َاَنْبِیَآء ك ْ ِی ََت عُلَمَآء ُ اُم [‘The scholars in my ummah will be like the Prophets of Bani Israel’]. They admitted the likeness in all of these cases, yet in regard to the Messiah they insist that he is the very one who will come. How can this be? This is like the example of two brothers—when assets are divided between them, each one is given comparable things. When they acknowledge the likeness of the Jews in the Ummah of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, then why do they drop dead at the acknowledgement of a Messiah [in the Ummah] as well? The Promised Messiah as said: I see that I have also been given the title A sha bul-Kahf [the People of the Cave ( S u rah al-Kahf, 18:10)] in Bar a h i n[-e- Ahmadiyya]. The mystery revealed here is that just as they were hidden, this secret also remained hidden for 1300 years and was not made manifest to anyone. And with it, the word of raq i m [inscription] shows that despite being hidden, it is 1. Tafs i rul-Kab i r, by Im a m Fakhr al-D i n al-R a z i , Tafs i r S u rah Y u nus, verses 57– 58, vol. 17, p. 93, D a rul-Kutub al-‘Ilm i yyah, Beirut. [Publisher]