Lecture Lahore — Page 60
60 Lecture Lahore would help me, give me a large following and frustrate the designs of my enemies. If you reflect with an unbiased mind, you will realize what a clear and outstanding sign this is. Does any man or devil have the power to make such a prophecy at a time of anonymity and to cause it to be ful- filled while thousands of people have risen up to stop it? The fourth condition, that the claimant should satisfacto- rily answer all objections levelled against him, has also been fulfilled in my case. The major objection raised by my opponents was that Jesusas himself was to return to the world as the Promised Messiah. I told them that it is evi- dent from the Holy Quran that Jesusas is dead and will never return to the world. For instance, Allah has quoted Jesusas as saying: فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنْتَ اَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ 364 When read in its context, the verse says that when Allah will ask Jesusas on the Day of Judgement whether it was he who taught his followers to worship him and his mother, he will say, "Lord, If I had done so, You would surely have known it, for You are the Knower of the Unseen. I only taught them what You commanded me, that God is one without partner and I am His Messenger. I was only aware of their condition as long as I lived among them, but ever since You caused me to die, You have been witness over them, and I know not what they did after me. " 36 "But since Thou didst cause me to die, Thou hast been the Watcher over them. "-Al-Ma'idah, 5:118 [Publishers]