Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 284
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 284 Only One Wish The Promised Messiah as said: The suffocating stillness of the air, heat, and lack of rain of these days is a prelude to something that will appear in the future. It is not known what is going to happen. All I wish is that the exist- ence of God be proven to the world no matter what it takes, and the truth of the religion of Islam be manifest no matter how it happens. The Death of the Messiah is a Belief Based on Consensus A person asked, ‘From where did the belief of the Messiah being alive enter into Islamic literature?’ The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, said: This is similar to how the Muslims of India still perform marriage and death rituals like the old Hindus. When many Christians and Jews became Muslims, they brought remnants of old ideas. Those same ideas were transferred to Muslims and combined with misunderstandings of a ha d i th to give rise to this incorrect belief, and then it found its way into the books. Otherwise, there was no trace or sign of this at the beginning of Islam; in fact, there was an ijm a ‘ [consensus] on the death of all the Prophets. Nevertheless, even among these people, many acknowledge the death of Hadrat ‘ I s a [ Jesus]. Some say that he remained dead for three days, others for seven days, and some believe that he died forever. In any case, the true Islamic ijm a ‘ is the one that took place in the midst of the Companions ra. The first ijm a ‘ among the