Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 255
Malfuzat - Volume II 255 morals that are the key to righteous deeds. "¹ 16 July 1900 Two Exquisite Couplets of the Promised Messiahas هر که روشن شد دل و جان و درون از حضرتش کیمیا باشد بسر برون دم در صحبتش چیست دنیا چون شب تار و زمان ابر سیاه آفتابی رہنما یک ساعتی در خدمتش One whose heart and soul, and inner self has been illuminated by God; Is one in whose company, a moment spent, is alchemy. The world is a dark night and our present times are a black cloud; The Sun of Guidance only stays in the world for a short while. The Secret in Prophet Ezraas Coming Back to Life and the Death of Jesusas The Promised Messiahas said: "Those who deny the death of Jesus, peace be upon him, present the issue relating to the life of Ezraas as one of their arguments and assert that he died for a hundred years and then came back to life. However, it ought to be remembered that this is a case of resurrection from the dead. There could be various forms of coming to life. The first could be if a person came back to life after death in a manner that their grave was ripped open and they returned to the world along with their possessions and necessities of life. The second could be if Allah the Exalted, through His bounty and grace, were to bestow another life-as he does with the people of God, for example, like the person who due to fear of God bequeathed that he should be cremated after death and his ash thrown into the wind. After this had been done, God Almighty brought the in- dividual to life. When the ash had been gathered, the man was presented before God in the form of a body with a physical life. There is no question of gathering ash in the life that one receives after death. I would point out, however, that de- spite all this, one thing is for certain, and that is that the individual in question 1 Al-Hakam, vol. 4, no. 25, dated 9 July 1900, pp. 1-5