First of all, the questioner, Mr. Hashim Saeed, requested Huzoor to explain one of Promised Messiah’s Urdu couplet in which Hazrat Masih Maud A.S. says When you speak of an Ayaz or a Laila or a Majnoon, you don’t keep in view that exact relationship that exists between Mahmood and Laila and between Zahra and Mahmood. Even people say that their beloved Prophets and other people, both men and women can address each other as your Majnoon.
And similarly, these incidents which acquire a metaphorical character and value, it is only in terms of certain relationships, not physical relationships, but some mental relationships or equations in emotions and sentiments. When they are referred to, only the emotional or sentimental part of that relationship is expressed, not the physical part. Now, Hazrat Yaqub had a special relationship to Hazrat Yusuf, not only as a son, because in that relationship, Yusuf A.S. was common with others, but at par with the rest of the sons.
That was the relationship of being a son who was specially blessed by Allah and about him whom a prediction was already made that a day would come when he would become a great Prophet. So, that was the relationship which he referred to. Again, the Prophethood concept doesn’t come into it. That is the reason behind that relationship. What I want to express is that the relationship is only that of extreme love. And in that relationship, Yusuf is lost to his father. One who is specially prized, one who is particularly loved, he is lost. And somebody is waiting impatiently or patiently, we should say, for him once to appear. He knows positively that he will reappear.
There is no doubt about it. But the waiting is very trying at the same time. This is exactly the situation, or let’s say, the exact relationship between the victory of Islam and Hazrat Masih Maud A.S. He loved the victory of Islam even more than Hazrat Yaqub loved Hazrat Yusuf. And he was even more certain that it would definitely come. There is absolutely no doubt about it. But yet, it appeared to be placed far off in unknown future. And that was the anxiety.
So, when Hazrat Masih Maud A.S. began to perceive the signs of that victory appearing here and there in Europe, he heard that people of Europe were turning to Islam they were changing in their views about Islam. Those were the first signs of the appearance of that Yusuf. So, this verse of Hazrat Masih Maud A.S., this Kapilayat, I mean, is explained in the context of the previous Kapilayat or the Kapilayat following it where Hazrat Masih Maud A.S. says that It is self-explanatory in the whole context. Right from the start to the end, this poem is devoted to the ultimate victory of Islam. Every verse should be interpreted in that context.
