Reply to a Mockery — Page 58
58 Hadrat Mirza Sahib is pointing to a very profound subject of the Quran when he talks of the ‘Mary-like state’. He also makes it clear that the Quran uses the simile of Mary for certain persons of the Ummah. The Holy Quran describes this subject thus: َبَرَض ُهّٰللا اًلَثَم َنْيِذَّلِّل اوُرَفَك َتَاَرْما ٍحْوُن َّو َتَاَرْما ٍطْوُل١ؕ اَتَناَك َتْحَت ِنْيَدْبَع ْنِم اَنِداَبِع َو َبَرَض ُهّٰللا اًلَثَم َنْيِذَّلِّل اوُنَمٰا َتَاَرْما َنْوَعْرِف١ۘ ْذِا ْتَلاَق ِّبَر ِنْبا ْيِل َكَدْنِع اًتْيَب يِف ِةَّنَجْلا َوِنْيَحِلاَص اَمُهٰتَناَخَف ْمَلَف اَيِنْغُي اَمُهْنَع َنِم ِهّٰللا أًـْيَش َّو َلْيِق اَلُخْدا َراَّنلا َعَم َنْيِلِخّٰدلا۰۰۱۰ ٖهِبُتُك َو ْتَناَك َنِم َنْيِتِنٰقْلاَو َمَيْرَم َتَنْبا َنٰرْمِع ْۤيِتَّلا ْتَنَصْحَا اَهَجْرَف اَنْخَفَنَف ِهْيِف ْنِم اَنِحْوُّر َو ْتَقَّدَص ِتٰمِلَكِب اَهِّبَر َوْيِنِّجَن ْنِم َنْوَعْرِف َو ٖهِلَمَع َو ْيِنِّجَن َنِم ِمْوَقْلا َنْيِمِلّٰظلا۰۰۱۱ۙ Allah sets forth for those who disbelieve the example of the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were under two righteous servants of Ours, but they acted unfaith- fully towards them. So they availed them naught against Allah and it was said to them, ‘Enter the fire, ye twain, along with those who enter. ’ And Allah sets forth for those who believe the exam- ple of the wife of Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord! Build for me a house with You in the Garden; and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from the wrongdoing people. ’ And the example of Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her private parts—so We breathed into him of Our Spirit—and she fulfilled in her person the words of her Lord and His Books and was one of the obedient. ( Sūrah at-Ta h r i m , 66:11–13)