Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 529
Undated 529 400 or 500 people, and 10–15 requests for Bai‘at [the Pledge of Allegiance] come daily as a routine, and there are others besides who come here and enter the Movement. The Purpose of Establishing the Movement The real purpose of establishing this Movement is indeed that people should get out of the world’s filth and attain true purity and lead the life of angels. Death of Jesus the Messiah The controversy over [ Jesus] the Messiah’s death has been resolved completely. Allah the Exalted has proven his death through His Word and through the admission of [ Jesus] the Messiah himself, peace be on him: 1 اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت And the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, through his experience, witnessed him among the dead on the night of M‘ir a j [Spiritual Ascension]. We do not understand the logic of how the person who is still in this realm joined the souls who have passed away from this world. 2 1. But since Thou didst cause me to die ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118). [Publisher] 2. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 25, p. 10, 11, dated 17 July 1905