Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 42
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 42 had not been born, Islam would have become such an ambigu- ous religion that it would have been impossible to distinguish between heretics and non-heretics. Now, again, a time has come that every home has its own religion. We do not deny being Muslims, but this name has been given to remove division. The Prophet of God, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, disagreed with the people of the Torah and became the cause of division in the eyes of the general public. But the truth, however, is that God Himself creates this division. When there is too much adulteration and contamination, God Himself desires to make a distinction. Maulaw i Sahib again asked the same question that God has said: 1 َوُه ُمُكىّٰمَس َنْيِمِلْسُمْلا َوُه ُمُكىّٰمَس َنْيِمِلْسُمْلا [He named you Muslims]. The Promised Messiah as said: Does this include the R a fi di , the heretics, and today’s Muslims? Does this include those who are becoming Ib ah at i 2 and con- sider alcohol and adultery also permissible in Islam? Certainly not. The addressees of this verse are the Companions. It has been mentioned in the noble a ha d i th that after the first three centuries, there would be a period of faij-e-a‘waj [a crooked group] 3 in which falsehood and deception would spread. The 1. S u rah al- H ajj, 22:79 [Publisher] 2. Ib a hiyah Sect: The sect which does not acknowledge the lawful and the un- lawful and who think that man does not possess either the power to safeguard against sins or the strength to carry out the commandments, that no one is the master of anything in the world and that all people are partners in wealth and spouses. [Publisher] 3. 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-e-a‘waj, or ‘a crooked group’ (See Kanz- ul-‘Umm a l and Mishk a t-ul-Ma sa b ih ); see also To h fa-e-Golarhviyyah, Ru ha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 17, p. 226. [Publisher]