Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 60
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 60 Jews—this notwithstanding the fact that we believed in the creed ِ سُوْل ُ هللا َّ ل َٓ إِلٰه َ إِل َّ هللا ُ مُحَمَّد ٌ ر ِ سُوْل ُ هللا َّ ل َٓ إِلٰه َ إِل َّ هللا ُ مُحَمَّد ٌ ر [‘There is no one worthy of worship except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’] with all our heart and soul; and that we believed the Holy Quran to be the True and Perfect Book of God Almighty and to be the Khatamul-Kutub [Seal of the Books] with sincerity of heart; and that we considered the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to be Khatamun-Nabiyyin [the Seal of the Prophets] with sincerity of heart; and that we had the same Salat, the same Qiblah; and that we did fast in the month of Ramadan in the same fashion; and that there was no difference with regard to Hajj [the Pilgrimage] and Zakat [almsgiving]. Still, for reasons unknown, they declared us to be even worse than the Christians and the Jews, and it was considered [by them] worthy of reward to abuse us day and night. 1 After all, there is something called decency! This kind of course is adopted by those whose faith gets snatched and whose hearts are blackened. In short, since God knew that a time would come when Muslims would become Jews in character, He taught the prayer of ِرْيَغ ِبْوُضْغَمْلا ْمِهْيَلَع ِرْيَغ ِبْوُضْغَمْلا ْمِهْيَلَع. Then, God says 2 َو اَل َنْيِّلٓاَّضلا َو اَل َنْيِّلٓاَّضلا meaning that, ‘Do not let us follow the path of those who deviated from Your true and right 1. From Badr: I have seen written in their fatwa of my infidelity that his disbe- lief is worse than the disbelief of the Jews and the Christians. It is odd that those who proclaim the Kalimah [creed of Islam], pray five times a day facing towards the Qiblah [direction of the Ka’bah in Makkah] and call the name of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with reverence, and are prepared to lay their lives for him—are they worse than those who abuse the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, all the time?’ ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 7, dated 9 January 1908). 2. S u rah al-F a ti h ah , 1:7 [Publisher]