Reply to a Mockery — Page 41
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 41 Far i diyyah, Faq i r Mu‘ i n i Sh a h Jam a l i , p. 85, Maktabah Mu‘ i nul-Adab, Derah Gh a z i Kh a n) And it is written about Hadrat Man su r H all a j rta: The life of H all a j was taken for his ‘crime’ of uttering ‘…I am God’. By this claim he meant that he had joined Allah Almighty and that he had lost himself in Allah and that he had lost his personality completely and become a part of Allah. ( Anw a rul-Auliy a ’, Sayyed Ra’ i s Ahmad Ja‘far i Nadw i , p. 180, Published by Sheikh Ghulam ‘Al i & Sons, Kashmiri Baz a r, Lahore) Besides the above quoted few, there are many Muslim saints who not only claimed to be the mirror image of God, they went further and claimed to be God Himself. Their claims did not make them God but only pointed to their lofty status. Therefore, Maulaw i Sahib’s unfounded criticism of Hadrat Mirza Sahib is based on malice and enmity and is a complete falsehood. Imam Husain ra and Imam Mahdi as Maulaw i Sahib has further criticized a Persian verse written by Hadrat Mirza Sahib and another one of his essays. The Promised Messiah as writes: I say truly that there is one among you now who is greater than that H usain ra. ( D a fi‘ul-Bal a ’i wa Mi‘y a ru Ahlil-I st if a ’,