Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 68
68 MALFUZAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME IO this is the misguiding group that has been called the Dajjal in the Hadith and the Zallin in the Holy Quran? Breaking of the Cross and Killing of the Swine It should also be kept in mind that it is written in Şahih al-Bukhārī, viz the Messiah to come (who has now come), that: يَكْسِرُ الصَّلِيْبَ وَيَقْتُلُ الْخِنْزِيرَ . Meaning that he would break the Crosses and kill the Swines. This does not mean that he would be hunting in the jungles like crude and crass people, or would climb the churches to break the crosses. The real purport is that one who eats filth is called 'swine, and it is not necessary that that filth only be the excrement of animals. The filth of falsehood and fabrication is the most repulsive and stinking filth. Therefore, God has named those who constantly misguide the world with their lies and deceptions as 'swine. And when he said يَكْسِرُ الصَّلِيْبَ ]He will break the Cross'[, it did not mean that when the Messiah comes, he would go around breaking crosses made of stone, copper, and wood etc. that are sold for pennies. What it means is that he would demol- ish the foundation of Christianity. The entire basis of their reli- gion rests upon Jesus being alive. It is not just that, like other Prophets, he is living but his being alive entails that he is going to come to this world a second time and will judge people. I do not know how the precept of Jesus being alive found its way 1. Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Mazālim, Bāb Kasriş-Şalīb wa Qatlil-Khinzir, Hadith 2476 [Publisher]