The Devotion of Life — Page 113
113 “Although my body is fatigued, my heart never feels so. It desires to continue to labour. ” (Malfoozat; vol. 2, p. 691) We Cannot Follow Two Occupations “A person came to me and mentioned about a property that was to be sold and suggested that I purchase it to avoid its sale to a Sikh or some other person. What have we to do with such things? We have not come to acquire properties or estates. We do not care whether a Sikh buys or someone else does. Always remember the following couplet of Persian, ‘We cannot have two occupations’. We cannot fulfil adequately our responsibility of serving Allah the Almighty and we have neither time nor need to indulge in anything else. ” (Malfoozat; vol. 4, p. 441) Humility of the Promised Messiah as A person suggested to the Promised Messiah as that because he had laboured so diligently to write ‘ Haqiqa-tul-Wahi’, and because of repeated proof-reading, Huzur had become ill. He suggested that Huzur as should have complete rest and give up writing entirely. Huzur as replied,