Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 167
10 FEBRUARY 1908 10 FEBRUARY 1908 (At the time of Zuhr) The Exaggeration of Shias The Promised Messiahas said: The Shias exaggerate to the extreme. One Shia writes in his book that all Prophets so much so that even the Holy Prophetsas are in need of the shafa'at [intercession] of Imam Husaina. Then they allege that revelation had descended upon Hazrat Alia, but angel Gabriel made a mistake. It is also writ- ten that when the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, went on the Mi'raj [Spiritual Ascension], Hazrat Alita was already present there, and a person referred to Hazrat Alira as God, whereupon he replied that well, there are hun- dreds of thousands of servants of God, you be the one for me. In other words Hazrat Alira is made out to be God. It is strange that in the heavens Ali is God, but upon the earth he is but a single disciple of the Holy Prophetsas who could not even properly handle a simple Khilafat [Successorship of the Holy Prophetsas]. I cannot understand what kind of Islam people find in the Shia religion. They [the Shias] consider all the Companions of the Holy Prophetsas, barring a few, to be apostates; they harshly criticize the Ummahatul-Mominin [Mothers of the Believers; i. e. the wives of the Holy Prophetsas]; they declare the Quran to be the account book of [Hazrat] Uthman-what faith can a 167