Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 82
82 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 God Almighty has Sent me as the Mujaddid of this Century And it is matter of great joy that God Almighty has not left Islam helpless during such a time. He has sent me in accordance with His law so that I may restore it to life. But it is a matter of astonishment and sorrow that even though the condition of the age called for a Mujaddid [Reformer], and if the maulawīs are asked they acknowledge that it is a promise of God Almighty that a Mujaddid will appear upon every century,¹ but when they are asked to identify the Mujaddid of this century, they do not respond whereas twenty-four years of this century have elapsed. And when I put forth [the claim] that God has sent me as the Mujaddid of this age, they deny me and say that the Dajjal [Antichrist] has come, and they also say that not one but thirty Antichrist are about to appear. 2 Alas! Despite this extreme distress was it only Dajjal that you were apportioned. Is it also written somewhere that in ear- lier times Mujaddids would appear, but in the fourteenth cen- tury, which is the century of the greatest mischiefs, the Dajjal would come? The present condition is openly proclaiming aloud that reformation is needed, but these [maulawīs] desire yet more disorder. It is a firmly established matter that when transgression and sin spreads on the earth, Almighty Allah sends someone for reformation, and now that condition had 1. In Sunan Abi Dāwūd, Kitābul-Malāhim, Bāb mā Yudhkaru fi Qarnil-Mi'ati, Hadith 4291; it is written as: إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ لِهَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ كُلِّ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ مَنْ يُجَدِّدُ لَهَا دِينَهَا [Publisher] 2. From Badr: 'What is the reason that at the head of this century even that Hadith became falsified, which had been proven correct for thirteen hundred years?' (Badr, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 13, dated 17 January 1907)