Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 394
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 394 who fear to stand in the presence of Almighty Allah and have not grown fond and attached to these mortal things are saved from this torture. How well has someone put it when he said: ت �یس� خ � �ی� ا زجو دو زج دام خ دتش ِ د� ت �یس� خ � آرام ِ قح اگہ ولخبت زج The wilderness of this world suffers no scarcity of ravenous beasts and snares; There is no solace besides solitude in the presence of God. The Truth about the Ascension to the Heavens of Jesus, Peace be on Him Almighty Allah knows best that my real intent and the pur- pose of my coming is not [to establish] that Jesus died. This was a truth that I presented. This is indeed what Almighty Allah revealed to me. I presented it to the world as such. I have no enmity with Jesus as ; he is also a Messenger and a Prophet of Almighty Allah. We say that he did not go to the heavens with his earthly body. I intend no insult to him, but what am I to do? The essential point is precisely why I should exclusively grant him a quality that I do not believe applies to any Prophet or Messenger? I am certainly not mean. I acknowledge that the body with which the other Prophets ascended to the heavens is the same body with which ‘ I s a as [ Jesus] also went, but how can I accept the errors and self-concocted ideas of these people? Remember this well that I do not believe Jesus, peace be on him, is a spirit without a body in heaven. I believe that he is certainly there with a body. Of course, the difference is to the extent that these people say it is the earthly body whereas I say that that body is the very body that was given to the other Messengers. Allah Almighty says about the people of Hellfire: