Reply to a Mockery — Page 47
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 47 Until Maulaw i Sahib furnishes us with answers to the above ques- tions, he has no right to raise this subject again. Perfect Intercessor Maulaw i Sahib has taken another excerpt from the book D a fi‘ul- Bal a ’ [Defence Against the Plague], in which the writer addresses the Christians. Maulaw i Sahib, in keeping with his dishonest atti- tude, uses this to attack the Promised Messiah as. He omits the part where the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as is mentioned, and presents a partial quote on page 17 of his pamphlet: In this day and age you have no intercessor other than this Messiah… ( D a fi‘ul-Bal a ’i wa Mi‘y a ru Ahlil-I st if a ’ , Ru ha n i Khaz a ’in , vol. 18, p. 233; Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God , English ed. 2015, p. 21) Esteemed readers! We will here present you with the full excerpt and you will then see that Hadrat Mirza Sahib believed the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as was the perfect intercessor or advocate and that his own advocacy was only a reflection or a shadow of the Holy Prophet’s s as advocacy. The Promised Messiah as addresses the Christian clergy and advises them to refrain from referring to Jesus as as their Creator and Sustainer. He says to them, ‘Follow me so that you may receive the blessings of the Holy Prophet’s s as intercession’. Here is a translation of his words: Understand with perfect certainty that in this day and