Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 314
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 314 of this. Adversities, like day and night, circulate among every nation but God Almighty has always saved Muslims on such occasions with help from the unseen. The kind of reconcilia- tion you desire is, in my opinion, hypocrisy and I am hostile to such reconciliation. What an absurd thing it is to say that the Christian peo- ple patronize learning! Knowledge is also power, and with this power, man can save himself from every darkness and base doc- trines. Their knowledge—what use is their knowledge? A weak, frail, and helpless individual who was born from the womb of his mother according to the law of nature like an ordinary human being, who endured the struggle of saving himself from worldly hardships and rigours, who was ultimately put upon the cross after suffering various indignities and beatings at the hands of the Jews—they have made such a man God! Can this be called knowledge? As the saying goes, ‘The ele- phant has one set of teeth to show and another to eat with!’ When someone is crowned a king, he is administered a solemn oath that he will follow the teachings of the Gospels. Is this what it means to say that the Christians value learning? The questioner said that they always have a book or a newspaper in their hands. The Promised Messiah as said: It cannot be said about someone who is totally bereft of true knowledge and spirituality that he values learning.