Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 340
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 340 will help whoever will help you. The one who opposes lightly and goes about his business is not held to account, for God is Forbearing and Compassionate and does not punish like this. The Question: Can the Exalted Maker Lie Some people believe that since God Almighty is: 1 ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌرْيِدَق ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌرْيِدَق It is for this reason that He is also capable of telling lies. Holding such a belief is disrespectful. It is a great sin to attribute any- thing to God Almighty that is contrary to His promise, glo- rious being, and attributes. He does not pay any attention to what is contrary to His attributes. Ascension of Idr i s, Peace be on Him, to Heaven Siddiq Hasan Khan has refuted the ascension of Idr i s as [Enoch] to heaven, citing that if he went to heaven, how would his death have occurred given that everyone must die on earth? It is strange that he failed to understand this in the case of the Messiah [ Jesus]. If God Almighty did not cause Hadrat ‘ I s a [ Jesus] to die and has simply raised him up to heaven, then the word ٌ ع ْ ِف َ ر ٌ ع ْ ِف َ ر [ raf ‘un ‘ to exalt’] in the Holy Quran would have suf - — ficed. There would have been no need then to introduce the word ی ِفِّ ََوَ ت ی ِفِّ ََوَ ت [ tawaff i —‘to cause to die’] prior to raf ‘un since the meaning of going to heaven could be fully understood from the word rafa‘a alone. 1. He has power over all things ( S u rah al-A h q a f, 46:34). [Publisher]