Yes, but there is an identification, apparent identification of those people in Torah is Ahshidau al-Kufari rahumau veinahum taraahum rubraan sujadaa yabtaoonaa fadhlamun min allaha wa rizwanaa. This is the description. Fi wujoohehu. The description itself is timeless? Fi wujoohehum. Asar. Asar is sujood. Yes. But this description. Simaahum fi wujoohehum.
Yes. So, I mean, the apparent, the mark of the prostration. No, no, no. It’s not that gata which you are thinking of on the forehead. Is that it? No, no. That’s what you want to understand? Yes. I want to ask, is that all? No, sir. You are interested only in that gata? No, sir. Then the last point, sir. You have explained it. Okay. The last point. The simaahum fi wujoohehum min asar is sujood means a completely different thing. If that so-called gata should be taken as simaahum, then only those people would be pious, who have that sign on their forehead, and most of those people, as we see them today, are the greatest culprits of the world, of the time.
You know, they are the rascals of the first order, and they are hypocrites, they wrong Islam in every way, they misappropriate other people’s property, they commit crimes against poor, helpless, innocent people, and they tell lies in the name of the Holy Qur’an, in the name of Islam, and do everything wrong in the name of religion, yet they have that gata, that sign on their face. Are these the people referred to? Impossible. That simaah is a completely different thing. That simaah is not on the forehead, it is fi wujoohehum. Wujoo means the whole face. It shines with the inner beauty.
That simaah is a completely different phenomena, which means that if you are truly noble within, signs appear upon your face, whether you are dark in colour, or yellow, or red, or whatever be your complexion. There is something added to your bearing, that your face, which speaks of the hidden beauty that you have acquired, that nobility through submission to the will of Allah. So that simaah is of two types. On the culprits and the corrupt people also some sort of simaah appears.
For instance, if you look at the face of a corrupt thanedar, or a patwari, who has all his wife indulged in misappropriating money, hook and crook, and has been committing crimes against humanity, their faces are telltale faces. Immediately you set your eyes upon them, you know that all their lives they have led a life of corruption. And the truly pious people have a different face altogether. This is why many at the time of Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ set their eyes upon him and believed in him. There was no partition between the two happenings. To see him was to believe. And this is exactly what Hazrat Masih Maud ﷺ has said about him in a more beautiful way.
He doesn’t say to see him, to know him is to believe, he says to know him is to love him. That is a step forward. So he said, agar khaahi dalili, aashiqash baash, Muhammad hast burhaan imaan. Peace be upon you. If you want to find out a supportive argument in his favour, I mean you are in search of some argument, some evidence in his favour, he is not one who stands in need of such argument. Only it is for you to set your eyes upon his face and begin to love him. The greatest evidence in favour of Muhammad ﷺ is Muhammad himself, his personality. And when you look at the personality, then it will be an irresistible personality for you.
If you know him truly, you will obviously, positively and instantly fall in love with him. That is the message conveyed in that small couplet. It is so beautifully said and so forcefully said that even the most prominent enemies of Ahmadiyya had to give tribute to this couplet. For instance, Zafar Ali Khan, when he read it, he fell in love with this couplet. And he wrote it, I mean publicly committed himself to this, that of all the praises that he had heard of Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ, this was the greatest, by Hazrat Masih Maud ﷺ. And he had written it in Mansoorabad on his mosque and some other verses of Hazrat Masih Maud ﷺ. That is Seema.
The inner quality enriches the whole personality and begins to seep through every pore of your being. And because face is the index of personality, so the Holy Qur’an mentions face, not the forehead, as the indication of the hidden personality. And it says truth appears and overflows and appears on their faces and everyone begins to know. This is Seema and this is again a timeless feature.
All these characteristics that are described about the companions of Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ, they are timeless. Anyone, anywhere in the world who appears to be in the company of Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ in characteristics, he would be covered by this verse.
