Reply to a Mockery — Page 114
114 ( Sūrah al-Anf a l, 8:25) Here, the power of giving life is so splendidly manifested in the person of Muhammad s as , the best of the life-givers, that it is as if God has given him a share in His powers. Maulana! You accept that Jesus as possessed this attribute, yet you deny it in the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as The message conveyed in the above verse is that all people--before and after Muhammad--who had the power to bring about life and death had this power in the spiritual sense, not in a physical sense. They did not send living people into the graves, nor did they bring out the dead out of the graves. Our lord and master, Chief of the Life-Givers, Hadrat Muhammad Mu st af a s as was the ultimate manifestation of God’s attribute of life and death. The weapons and tools that God gave the Holy Prophet s as in this regard are clear Signs: َكِلْهَيِّل ْنَم َكَلَه ْۢنَع ٍةَنِّيَب َّو ىٰيْحَي ْنَم َّيَح ْۢنَع ٍةَنِّيَب …so that he who had already perished through a clear Sign might perish and he who had already come to life through a clear Sign might live. ( Sūrah al-Anf a l, 8:43) Hence, accepting the clear Signs given to Prophet Muhammad s as is like drinking the elixir of life at his hands and, in doing so, one becomes the inheritor of everlasting life. And he who rejects these clear Signs--his lips have touched the goblet of death and he has descended into the darkness of destruction. Who can say that Hadrat Abu Bakr, Hadrat Umar, Hadrat Uthman, Hadrat Ali, Hadrat Talhah, Hadrat Zubair, and Hadrat Bilal (may Allah be