Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 540
540 MALFUZAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME IO Now, those who believe that Jesusas did not die and is alive, while the Holy Prophetsas is dead and buried in Madinah- have they not mounted a grievous attack on the honour of the Holy Prophetsas? And then they say that the same Israelite Prophet would come back to the world and reform the ummah of Muhammadsas and revive the Faith. Now, tell me how the Holy Prophetsas would continue to be Khatamun-Nabiyyin [the Seal of the Prophets] after an Israelite Prophet comes after the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him? By virtue of this doctrine, Jesusas would be Khatamun-Nabiyyin and not the Holy Prophetsas. Most certainly not! Jesusas was himself a Prophet of God in his own right. Would his earlier shariah and prophethood become abrogated? When we have received the promise in clear words in Sūrah an-Nür that the one to come would only come from within you-there is now no room for anyone to come from the outside. Şahih al-Bukhari, which is the most authentic book after the Book of Allah, also says إِمَامُكُمْ مِنْكُمْ ]Your Imam from among you']. And when his death [that of Jesus] is clearly proven from the Holy Quran and the Hadith, then why is such a doctrine maintained that is a belief that is totally against the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophetsas? The Holy Prophetsas himself saw him [Jesus] among the Prophets who are deceased on the night of Mi'raj [Spiritual Ascension]. If he was alive, there should have been some other place designated for him rather than being with the deceased. The living and the dead have nothing in common. In short, God through His Word and the Holy Prophet sas through his action have proven that he [Jesus] has already died. 1. Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Anbiyā', Hadith 3449 [Publisher]