Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 60
60 MALFUZAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME IO Jews-this notwithstanding the fact that we believed in the creed لا إِلهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَّسُوْلُ اللَّهِ ]There is no one worthy of worship except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah'] with all our heart and soul; and that we believed the Holy Quran to be the True and Perfect Book of God Almighty and to be the Khatamul-Kutub [Seal of the Books] with sincerity of heart; and that we considered the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to be Khatamun-Nabiyyin [the Seal of the Prophets] with sincerity of heart; and that we had the same Salat, the same Qiblah; and that we did fast in the month of Ramadan in the same fashion; and that there was no difference with regard to Hajj [the Pilgrimage] and Zakat [almsgiving]. Still, for reasons unknown, they declared us to be even worse than the Christians and the Jews, and it was considered [by them] worthy of reward to abuse us day and night. ¹ After all, there is something called decency! This kind of course is adopted by those whose faith gets snatched and whose hearts are blackened. In short, since God knew that a time would come when Muslims would become Jews in character, He taught the prayer . غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ of Then, God says وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ meaning that, 'Do not let us follow the path of those who deviated from Your true and right 1. From Badr: I have seen written in their fatwa of my infidelity that his disbe- lief is worse than the disbelief of the Jews and the Christians. It is odd that those who proclaim the Kalimah [creed of Islam], pray five times a day facing towards the Qiblah [direction of the Ka'bah in Makkah] and call the name of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with reverence, and are prepared to lay their lives for him-are they worse than those who abuse the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, all the time?' (Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 7, dated 9 January 1908). 2. Surah al-Fatihah, 1:7 [Publisher]