So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 139
Holy Quran, for, it is no other Book except the Holy Quran about which it is said innahoo la-qaulun faslun wa ma howa bil-hazl. It is a Scale, Protector, a Light and Cure and Mercy. Those who study the Holy Quran and take if as stories, do not really study the Holy Quran (they do not understand it), rather they degrade it. Why are my opponents so strongly opposed to me? Simply because I want to show Holy Quran- according to the command of God-as a light, Wisdom and a means of God-realisation. On th~ other hand, they want to show it as no more than ordinary stories. I cannot tolerate this. God, through His Grace, has made it clear to me that the Holy Quran is a living Book and full of light. Why should I mind the opposition. I am repeatedly advising those who are with me that this Dispensation has been started by God to reveal the fact and to make them conspicuous, for, without this, there can be no Light in the practical life. I should like the Beauty of Islam to be shown to the world through practical truth. It is for this that God has commissioned me. You should study the Holy Quran much and do so as if you study a philosophy and not just as you study some stories. {Malfoozat, Vol. III, p. 155) PUNISHMENT FOR MISCHIEF-MAKING It should be remembered that the Meccans did not only disbelieve (the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam )- mere denial of a Prophet on the basis of simple-mindedness does not bring down the wrath of God on the people in the world. It is only when the people who belie, cross all the bounds of gentility and humanity and become shameless and foul-mouthed and they do not limit themselves to raising objections but go to the extent of teasing and machinations, 139