Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 71
27 December 1907 71 mentioned in the Holy Quran and the verse 1 اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت testified that Jesus had died. The bishop could find no escape and could only make the remark: ‘It seems that you are a Mirza’i. ’ Afterwards, when the audience of the lecture came out they said, ‘Though Mirza’i are disbelievers, they have saved our hon- our on this day. ’ Now We are the Ones with Spiritual Weapons When Allah bestows dominance upon someone, He also blesses him with weapons. Nowadays, Europe is entirely dominant in the secular sense, but don’t you see that it is Europe indeed that has invented amazing weapons of every kind to the extent that even if the Sultan of Turkey needs any weapon, he sends the request to them? In the same way, the spiritual weapons are now in our hands. 2 How can one dominate without possession of the required weaponry? But now—wherever you go—you will proclaim that Jesus has died and his death is mentioned in the Holy Quran, in the authentic Hadith; our Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, testified that he saw him [ Jesus] among the other dead during the Mi’raj [Spiritual Ascension]; and he [the Holy Prophet s as ] demonstrated by his own death that all the 1. But since You did cause me to die ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:118). [Publisher] 2. From Badr: God Almighty has conferred spiritual weapons upon us. It is a special blessing of God Almighty. A nation without weapons is bound to be destroyed. Bear in mind that weapons mean spiritual powers and irrefutable arguments. Physical materials are not needed in religious matters. Look, if the weapon of the death of Jesus were not there, you would not stand a chance against them ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 9, dated 9 January 1908).