Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 411
24 September 1905 411 brought this issue to the fore. Otherwise, the essential goals and objectives of my advent are altogether different. Yes, of course, since this issue was contrary to the Divine teaching and it con- tained the ingredients that pollute the pure fountain of Tau hi d [Oneness of God], Almighty Allah rectified it and said clearly that all the Prophets have died. There is no such distinction in the Messiah [ Jesus], peace be on him, that was not bestowed upon the other Prophets. I accept that the Messiah has gone to Heaven with a body, but I can never accept that other Prophets have gone to Heaven without a body. The kind of body they are granted is the very body that was given to the Messiah, and it is the body that is bestowed after death. These are old issues, not new. Since they have forgotten the history of the first three centuries [of Islam], they say again and again that were our ancestors wrong? I do not say that they were wrong. The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, himself said that it would be the age of faij a‘waj [a crooked group] 1. The disbe- lievers used to say the same in their contention with the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that he is against their forefathers. This argument of forefathers cannot be correct. There was a period, after the first three centuries, that is called the Satanic Age. This intervening period spans 1,000 years. All the ill and evil that has spread has spread in that era. If the Noble Companions had been present, even they would not have been able to recognise it. It is not prudent even to allude to that period. The doctrine of the Messiah’s death has become so clear that 1. The Holy Prophet Muhammad s as prophesied that between the advents of his blessed person and the Mahdi and Messiah, a force of Gog and Magog would appear, which he described as faij a‘waj, or ‘a crooked group’ (See Kanzul- ‘Umm a l and Mishk a tul-Ma sa b ih ). [Publisher]