Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 419
3 May 1908 419 There is no confusion nor is there any room for doubt in this matter. Being a Muslim, is it wise to present something that is opposed to the Quran and contrary to Islam? One who believes in an ijma [consensus] on any matter in opposition to the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, is a liar. This indeed was also the belief of the sufis and some of the saintly people of this Ummah of the Best of Creation, that he [ Jesus as ] had died and that the Promised One would come from among the people of this Ummah itself. Nevertheless, prejudice is such an affliction that they are unable to perceive despite seeing, and they fail to comprehend despite coming to know of it. They do not hear despite hav- ing ears. Alas! Prejudice and stubbornness have even deprived them of the ability to distinguish between what is wholesome for them and what is harmful to them. Four hundred million people believe a weak and helpless man to be God because of these very arguments that he is eternal and everlasting, that he is alive and present in Heaven with his body, that he created birds, and that he brought the dead to life. And these are the Muslims who sabotage their own cause and they themselves offer the Christians the knife with which to slaughter them and assist them in this dangerous form of idolatry of theirs for which, God Almighty has declared such wrath as this: 1 ُداَكَت ُتٰوٰمَّسلا َنْرَّطَفَتَي ُهْنِم َو ُّقَشْنَت ُضْرَاْلا َو ُّرِخَت ُلاَبِجْلا اًّدَه ُداَكَت ُتٰوٰمَّسلا َنْرَّطَفَتَي ُهْنِم َو ُّقَشْنَت ُضْرَاْلا َو ُّرِخَت ُلاَبِجْلا اًّدَه These so-called Muslims do not even realize that their very own children are being dissuaded from Islam by such of their own pronouncements, against which they have no defence. Would 1. The heavens might well-nigh burst thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces ( S u rah Maryam, 19:91). [Publisher]