Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 416
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 416 1 اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت َتْنُك َتْنَا َبْيِقَّرلا ْمِهْيَلَع١ؕ َو َتْنَا ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌدْيِهَش اَّمَلَف ْيِنَتْيَّفَوَت َتْنُك َتْنَا َبْيِقَّرلا ْمِهْيَلَع١ؕ َو َتْنَا ىٰلَع ِّلُك ٍءْيَش ٌدْيِهَش in reply to this question by Allah the Exalted that: ‘O Jesus! Did you impart such an erroneous and misleading teaching to these people that they should take you and your mother as gods, and abandon the worship of the One and only God, the God of Honour and Glory?’ Jesus as will deny any knowledge of the transgression of the Christians and tender his excuse by saying that, ‘O my Lord! I only knew their condition as long as I lived among them. During that period, I only instructed them to worship the God who is the God of them and me—all of us—the One God. Then, when You caused me to die, You were the Guardian over them and the Knower of their condition—I have no knowl- edge of it. ’ Now, there can only be two options: Either these people should concede that the Christians have not yet gone astray, and their Doctrine of Trinity and of God having taken unto Himself a Son etc. that they have adopted is pure Tauhid [the Oneness of God], and leads to the pleasure of God, and is in accord with the teaching of Jesus as which he acknowledges in his own words in the Holy Quran; or, they must admit that the Messiah of Nazareth, who was sent to the Lost Sheep of Israel, has died his natural death by the will of God after com- pleting his assigned task—never to come back to this world— and that the one to come will be from among the followers of Muhammad s as , who will be called ‘Messiah’ because of the sim- ilarity he would bear [to Jesus as ] by way of his character, time of coming, and the work that he will accomplish. It is obvious that the first option is totally incompatible 1. But since You did cause me to die, You have been the Watcher over them; and You are Witness over all things ( S u rah al-M a’ idah, 5:118). [Publisher]