The Promised Messiah (as) said:
When there is mubram qaza [an immutable decree] in the case of some illness, then no one has any recourse, but when this is not the case, Allah the Exalted does respond to lots of focused prayers and supplications. And sometimes it also happens that the case is very much like mubram [immutable], and God has the power to avert even this. This condition is so dangerous that no research can give any guidance and even the physicians declare it to be incurable. However, the Sign of the special favour of God is that better circumstances continue becoming available and the condition [of the patient] keeps improving day by day. Otherwise, the condition of the patient keeps deteriorating day by day and things keep happening in some such way that: مرض بڑھتا گیا جوں دوا کی [‘The more the treatment was administered, the worse the illness got.’]1
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
When I supplicate for patients, many of whom have been declared incurable by their physicians and there appears to be no chance of their survival, Allah the Exalted restores them to health and bestows life upon them in a miraculous way as if the dead have been brought back to life.
It seems a lot of lies have been admixed in the stories of Jesus (as) raising the dead. Had thousands of dead actually come to life, was it that the Jews had become totally blind that they did not believe [in Jesus] even after seeing such a vividly clear sign in which there was no mystery left and it was as if God had become visible right in front of them? Were their hearts so hardened that not only did they not believe [in Jesus], but they apprehended Jesus (as)—for whom God showed such wonderful miracles as if He had lifted all the veils of heaven—and hung him on the cross, placing a crown of thorns on his head?
The fact of the matter is that a long time had elapsed. The original book is not present, only their translations are left; so, only God knows what they have added on their own and what they have removed.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
Miracles of God do occur but only the believers benefit from them. Those who have no faith cannot benefit from them and remain deprived because there is, necessarily, a kind of veil and an element of the unseen involved in miracles as well.
Dr. Khalifah Rasheed-ud-Din mentioned that some British people greatly detest these Christian priests so much so that some of them prefer using the churches for other purposes rather than praying in them.
Upon hearing this, the Promised Messiah (as) said:
Most are such that they have denied the existence of God. This is so because accepting Christianity, the first virtuous deed is to consume alcohol and then, as one advances to reach his climax, he comes to believe in the Atonement and becomes convinced that the Law is a curse and that their sins have been atoned for by Jesus (as) dying on the cross in exchange for the sins of his entire ummah altogether. Then he commits sins and continues up to his fill, fearing no one.
And indeed why would he be fearful? Was the Messiah not put on the cross for his sins? Thus, this is the state of their practical condition. Besides, the exemplar of God given to the world turned out to be frail and feeble that he was slapped and hoisted upon the cross, but could do nothing against his enemies. For these very reasons they have come to deny even the existence of God. Poor souls! They are indeed excusable because all these matters are totally opposed to human nature.
What indeed could be attained other than an impure life through the absurd teaching of the Atonement, and what could be achieved other than the scourge of humiliation and adversity through belief in such a frail and feeble God? So, they too have decided, on their part, that they are better off without such a God. This is not their fault. It is the fault of the teachings.
Look at the Aryas. They have made each and every particle a God. They say that it is only their deeds that are the cause of their comfort or grief, as if their deeds are their God. It is worth pondering that if the particles of the universe, together with all their properties, are eternal and everlasting like God, then why should God have superiority over them and why should He have control over them? What right did God have to unnecessarily interfere and usurp their freedom?
The fact is that the time has come which was alluded to the in the Book of Allah the Exalted that:
وَ تَرَکْنَا بَعْضَہُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ یَّمُوْجُ فِیْ بَعْضٍ وَّ نُفِخَ فِی الصُّوْرِ فَجَمَعْنٰہُمْ جَمْعًا2
Human nature has exhibited all its dimensions due to the current freedom, and divisions have reached their climax. It is the age in which every person has, as if, a separate religion. These are the very facts that indicate that this is verily the time for the blowing of the trumpet. And this is the time of fulfilment of the prophecy of فَجَمَعْنٰہُمْ جَمْعًا [‘Then shall We gather them all together’].3
1 This couplet was read by Dr. Khalifah Rasheed-ud-Din, Assistant Surgeon, and he had also commented that the couplet by the Promised Messiah (as) is, in fact, مرض گھٹتا گیا جُوں جُوں دوا دی ‘The illness continued receding as the medicine was administered.’ [Editor]
2 And on that day We shall leave some of them to surge against others, and the trumpet will be blown. Then shall We gather them all together (Surah al-Kahf, 18:100). [Publisher]
3 Al-Hakam, vol. 12, no. 30, p. 2, dated 26 April 1908