The Shining Lamp — Page 113
Sixteenth Prophecy 113 deficiency left in the glory, and, if so, how can it be expected that those injuries would ever be healed up to the Day of Judgment? All these are senseless tales on which the beam of Godhead has been rested, but the time is well-nigh approaching—nay, rather it has come—when God Almighty will blow away all these tales like the ginning of wool. It is such a pity that these people do not ponder over what sort of ‘God’ this was for whose wounds the need arose for producing an ointment. You have heard that the books of ancient medicines of the Christians, Romans, Jews and Zoroastrians, which are pres- ent to this day, testify that an ointment named Marham-e-‘ I s a [the Ointment of Jesus] was prepared for the treatment of the wounds of Yas u ‘. This is still present in the books of pharmacology. It cannot be said that the ointment was prepared before the time of the prophethood of Jesus because it was prepared by the disciples, who did not exist before his prophet- hood. It can never be said that the cause of these wounds could be anything other than the crucifixion, as no other such incident outside of the crucifixion can be proven to have taken place dur- ing the three years of prophethood. If there is such a claim, then it is incumbent upon such a claimant to establish this. Therefore, what a shame this is: such a ‘God’ , such wounds and this ointment. Who can put a veil over these actual, accurate, and true facts, and who can battle with God? There will always only be the One, ٌ حَي ٌّ قَيُّوم [ H ayyun Qayy u mun —Living, Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining] God, who has no physical form and who is author’s margin note Marham-e-Isa [The Ointment of Jesus]