Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 388
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 388 order for his title of Nawwab to be restored did come, but he passed away before the arrival of this order. 1 The Meek and Humble are Always the Ones who Support Prophets Mr. Muhammad Ali Jafferi, M. A. , Vice Principal, Islamia College Lahore, came for an audience with the Promised Messiah, peace be upon him. The Promised Messiah as addressed him and said: At the time that I was appointed and when God established this Movement in a very clear manner, leaving no ambiguity or doubt, and the advent had taken place exactly according to the purport of the prophecies of the Holy Prophet s as and the Holy Quran and exactly at the appointed hour, and there were Divine Signs also accompanying it to validate the claim—at that time, I presented this claim first to the body of religious scholars because I thought that being familiar with religious knowledge, these people would accept me without any excuses. My claim was perfectly in accord with the Holy Quran and Hadith and was for the fulfilment of a genuine need. And these people were themselves awaiting it, and used to preach in their sermons and lectures through both, written and spoken word, that the coming of the Promised Messiah in the fourteenth century [of the Islamic calendar] was absolutely undeniable and indisputable. And moreover, all the Signs that they used to describe had already appeared to testify to my truth. However, my expectation turned out to be absolutely wrong. The response I received from these scholars of religion was in the form of a fatwa [religious verdict] in which I was 1. Al- H akam, vol. 12, no. 33, p. 1–7, dated 14 May 1908