Questioner: What I wanted to ask was, you know, Jesus Christ actually told a lady, a woman who came to ask for blessing, and he actually refused her, you see, so how does that compare, you know, where you say, or another person…
Huzoor (rh): That particular person was so wicked, Allah had shown it to Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, that your teaching is not, she’s not worthy of your teaching. This is why it was particularly that lady to whom that statement of Jesus Christ applied.
Questioner: My original, which I wanted to ask…
Huzoor (rh): No, again, we infer, in our favour, from that statement, and in principle we are right, don’t confuse the issue. Intially, Jesus Christ was raised for the sake of Israelites. There’s no doubt about that from the Holy Qur’an, because the Holy Qur’an mentions, رَسُوۡلًا اِلٰی بَنِیۡۤ اِسۡرَآءِیۡلَ
Questioner: Yes.
Huzoor (rh): So this is what we infer from that, from that it’s quite good. But I’m also solving another contradiction, of the same nature, which appears in the first statement of the Holy Qur’an, regarding the incident, the episode of Adam and, Angels and God, where Iblis also gets into the picture, the statement is very categorical there as well. God addressed the angels, none others, yet others also got introduced. Then the other statement is also very categorical about Hadhrat Moses, he was sent for Bani Israel, not for Pharaoh, yet he addresses Pharaoh, and Pharaoh, some of them, also accept him. So it is exactly the same case with Jesus Christ peace be upon him. When Hazrat Messiah Maud alaihi salatu was salam lays stress on this issue, this fact, that Jesus was not for the whole world, but only for Israelites, that is what he means. The main purpose of his coming, like the earlier prophets than him, was to a certain people, and none of them was universal. This is against their universality that we argue. We do not argue that it was not possible, or it was not meant for anyone else living in the same region to accept him, or he was categorically barred out. So correct your approach, then there will be no problem.
