Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 385
31 May 1906 385 God Almighty’s Grace Needed for a Spiritual Revolution The Promised Messiah as said: I am poor and weak, I do not have a sword in my hands, nor am I commissioned to wield the sword, nor do I have the muni- tions for war, but my sword is in heaven. The great revolution I desire to bring about in the world, that people bow down to God and believe in His being, is not in my control. Even writ- ing books does nothing. Although I have collected a compen- dium of arguments like a garden filled with greenery, no one pays attention to it. God Almighty will do something through His grace. My heart feels that, at this time, the world is engulfed in such rash heedlessness that they will not believe without severe painful punishment. It is proven from the a ha d i th that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did not say that the coming Messiah would go around reviving the dead; instead, he said that he would kill the living. 1 (As can be seen in the deaths caused by the Sign of the plague, etc. ) 2 1. S a hih Muslim, Kit a b al-Fitan wa Ashr at al-S a ’ ah, B a bu Dhikr al-Dajj a l wa S ifatihi wa ma M a ‘ahu, Hadith 7373 [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 2, no. 23, p. 3, dated 7 June, 1906