Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 272
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 272 set aside the raising of the dead—let such a one show any sign in competition with me. Look, a man can advance in [spiritual] degrees within the scope and form of a man, not that he can also become God. When it is absolutely impossible for him to become God, why provide an example that he cannot benefit from? Human beings need a human example. And they always come to the world from God in the form of Prophets. What is not needed is God as a role model. It cannot be emulated as it is outside and beyond human capability. I am perplexed. Did God desire human beings to become God and is that why He chose to send God as a role model? Even more peculiar is that he [ Jesus], despite being God, suf- fered so much humiliation and ignominy at the hands of the Jews. He could not overpower them. Instead, he was prevailed upon. Question: What are the arguments for the veracity of the claim that you have made? Answer: I am not any novel Prophet. Hundreds of Prophets have come before me. The Prophets who are mentioned in the Torah and whom you believe to be true—the arguments that exist in support of their truth and of their being Prophets and appointees of God, you should present those and those same arguments will prove the veracity of my claim. The arguments by which any true Prophet can be accepted are those very argu- ments that support my being true as well. I, too, have come in the manner of the Prophets.