Undated

Prophecies of Warnings Can Be Averted

The Promised Messiah (as) said:

God Almighty is capable of doing anything. It is experienced by me that, at times, I receive a revelation which consists of a prophecy. If it pertains to a dire future event and I start praying, many a time it gets abrogated—say, after an hour—and it is countermanded by another command of God Almighty.

Revelations Through Angels

The Promised Messiah (as) said:

During some revelations, even though the angel is not visible, the purport of the wording shows that the discourse has descended through an angel by, for instance, the presence of such words in the revelation as: قَالَ رَبُّکَ [Your Lord has said] and مَا نَتَنَزَّلُ إِلَّا بِأَمْرِ رَبِّکَ [we (angels) do not come down save by the command of your Lord].

Historic Status of Qadian

The Promised Messiah (as) said:

Five hundred huffaz-Quran [people who have memorized the whole Quran] used to live here in Qadian. At that time it was called Islampur. Now you cannot find that many huffaz even in the big cities of India. The Sikhs destroyed its Islamic grandeur. Lots of Sikhs used to live here. Some of them had fought battles against Syed Ahmad. But gradually all passed away, and there are, maybe, just a few left.

The Essence of Jihad

The Promised Messiah (as) said:

The maulawis have misconstrued the issue of Jihad as well. It does not appear anywhere from the Holy Quran or the traditions of the Holy Prophet (sas) or in the biography of the Holy Prophet (sas) that any jihad to convert disbelievers to Islam was ever permitted in Islam or ever practiced.

For thirteen years, the Holy Prophet (sas) and his Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, suffered torture at the hands of the disbelievers. Only when the transgression of the disbelievers exceeded all limits was permission granted to kill those who killed them [the Muslims], and Muslims, too, were permitted to raise their hand because they had been persecuted.

This is the very gist of Jihad. Jizyah [tax on non-Muslim citizens], which is a nominal tax, itself proves that Islamists were commanded to allow the disbelievers to live peacefully under their sway.

At this point Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen said that the Quranic verse:

وَلَوۡلَا دَفۡعُ اللّٰہِ النَّاسَ بَعۡضَہُمۡ بِبَعۡضٍ لَّہُدِّمَتۡ صَوَامِعُ وَبِیَعٌ وَّصَلَوٰتٌ وَّمَسٰجِدُ یُذۡکَرُ فِیۡہَا اسۡمُ اللّٰہِ کَثِیۡرًا ؕ وَلَیَنۡصُرَنَّ اللّٰہُ مَنۡ یَّنۡصُرُہٗ ؕ اِنَّ اللّٰہَ لَقَوِیٌّ عَزِیۡزٌ ﴿۴۱﴾ 1

also proves that it is not permitted to wage war for the sake of religion or to attempt to eliminate other religions with the sword. Allah the Exalted desires to maintain the imprint of all religions. He accords special help to the True Religion which spreads on its own strength and is not in need of any jihad.

The Reason for Extolling the Prophets

The Promised Messiah (as) said:

The atmosphere these days is that anyone who experiences a word of revelation flowing off his tongue during the night thinks he has become a mulham [recipient of Divine revelation] and begins to boast about it, failing to assess what the condition of his own soul is. Read the entire Holy Quran and see that it is nowhere written that God was pleased with any person for the reason that he used to receive revelation. Rather, God Almighty has praised the Prophets in the Holy Quran for the reason that they demonstrated perfect sincerity and fidelity in the presence of God Almighty, performed righteous deeds, and discharged huququllah [the rights of God] and haququl-ibad [the rights of people]. It is highly detestable conduct that a man boast about a dream. It is a perilous mistake. These things do not merit prestige for a man.

The responsibility of man is to exert all of his energy in the cause of Allah the Almighty and act upon all the commandments of God Almighty. Only then would he become a wali [friend of Allah]. No claim can be accepted without proof. Without proof, even the Messengers are not accepted. Moses, peace be upon him, had also beseeched God for a proof which he might present before the world.2