Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 262
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 262 has suffered great harm from this belief, up to the extent that nearly 40 million people have become Christians who have forsaken the True God by transforming a helpless mortal into the Divine. And the ‘benefit’ that Christianity has brought to the world is evident. The Christians themselves have acknowl- edged that many immoralities have spread in the world through Christianity because when man is taught that his sins have become the responsibility of someone else, he becomes all the more emboldened to perpetrate sin. And sin is a dangerous poi- son for man, which Christianity has spread. In this case, the harm of this belief is even more egregious. The Issue of the Messiah’s Death was Kept Hidden by Divine Will I do not say that the people of this age are to be blamed for the belief concerning Jesus still being alive. No, some earlier people made mistakes. But even in this mistake, they still earned merit [in the sight of Allah] because it is written about the mujtahid 1 that, ُ قَد ْ یُـخْطِی ْ و َ یُصِیْب ُ قَد ْ یُـخْطِی ْ و َ یُصِیْب sometimes the mujtahid makes a mistake, and sometimes he is right, but he is rewarded in both. The essential point is that Divine will desired this matter to remain hidden from them. So they remained in ignorance, and like the People of the Cave, this truth remained concealed from them. I also received the revelation: ٰتِنَا عَجَبًا ی ْم ِ كَانُوْا مِن ْ اٰ ی ِ اَم ْ حَسِبْت َ اَن َّ اَصْحٰب َ الْكَهْف ِ و َ الرَّق ٰتِنَا عَجَبًا ی ْم ِ كَانُوْا مِن ْ اٰ ی ِ اَم ْ حَسِبْت َ اَن َّ اَصْحٰب َ الْكَهْف ِ و َ الرَّق [Dost thou think that the People of the Cave and the Inscription were a wonder among Our Signs?] 1. Mujtahid is a term used in Islamic jurisprudence to refer to a scholar who is qualified to interpret and derive legal rulings from Islamic sources, including the Holy Quran, Sunnah, and consensus of scholars. [Publisher]