Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 174
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 174 The Truth about Jesus Giving Life to the Dead His miracle of raising the dead has also been singled out as a peculiarity without any basis. One is surprised at these maulawis [Muslim clergy] that when the words ‘giving life to the dead’ are used for Jesus, it is taken by them to mean that those who have indeed literally died should come back to life, which runs contrary to the practice of Allah and the Holy Quran. But when the very same words are used for the Holy Prophet, it comes to mean the spiritually dead. It is written in the New Testament that Jesus raised the dead in such huge numbers that all the dead who were in their graves came to life and entered the cities. One might ask them how did the thousands of dead who had been raised and had entered the cities sustain themselves? A second question to ask would be, ‘Why didn’t those people believe in him after see- ing such a great miracle?’ Someone should have helped them understand that it was he [ Jesus] who prayed and brought them back to life; therefore, they should now believe in him. It is incomprehensible that such a great miracle did not prove beneficial for those dead who had been revived or for their rel- atives who had—with their own eyes—witnessed them coming back to life and emerging from their graves and entering into the cities. The truth of the matter is that—according to the science of interpretation of dreams—if someone sees that the dead have come to life and entered the cities, its interpretation is that pious-natured people of that age would be delivered from cap- tivity. At that time, since the Messiah [ Jesus] was himself in captivity, it is possible that he himself or someone else saw this dream or vision. Later on, the mention of the dream or vision was omitted and a literal meaning was adopted. There were also many accounts concerning the Holy