Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 379
23 September 1905 379 him, had gone to Kashmir after the incident of the cross, then he should have said, ‘when You caused me to reach Kashmir’ instead of اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت [ falamm a tawaffaitan i — when You caused me to die]. The reply to this objection is that this objection is based on a fallacy. It is true that the Messiah, peace be on him, came down alive from the cross and came to Kashmir from there when he found the opportunity. But in this verse, Allah Almighty did not ask about the condition of his opponents. He asks about the condition of his own ummah. The opponents continued to be k a fir [disbelievers] and kadhdh a b [deniers]. Secondly, the Messiah, peace be on him, has also said this in his response here: 1 اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف [ m a dumtu f i him ], ‘as long as I remained among them’. He didn’t say, ْ م ِ ھ ِ َض ْ ر َ ا ْ ی ِِف ُ ت ْ م ُ د َا م ْ م ِ ھ ِ َض ْ ر َ ا ْ ی ِِف ُ ت ْ م ُ د َا م [ m a dumtu f i ar d ihim —‘as long as I was in their land’]. The expression اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف اَم ُتْمُد ْمِهْيِف [ m a dumtu f i him —‘as long as I remained among them’] demands that where the Messiah goes, his disciples must go as well. It cannot happen that an Appointee and Messenger of God Almighty is saved from a grave threat to his life and then he migrates in accord with the will of God Almighty and yet his followers and disciples aban- don him completely and do not go after him. Of course not. They, too, came here to be with him. Yes, it is possible that they did not all come at once, but came separately. Thus, the coming of Thomas to India is proven. The Christians themselves have accepted it. There is a precedent for this type of emigration in the emigration of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Although his faithful and devoted follow- ers were present in Makkah, when he migrated, he took with him only Hadrat Ab u Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him. 1. As long as I remained among them ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118). [Publisher]