Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 34
34 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to arouse emotion, tears and humility, one ought to supplicate in one’s mother tongue. One possesses a special attachment to one’s mother tongue and has a command over their own language. No matter how well-versed and extremely proficient an individual is in another language, a feeling of disassociation forever remains. Hence, one ought to supplicate in one’s mother tongue. ” Do Not Be Unmindful of Death The Promised Messiah as said: “How does a person know if after the Zuhr Prayer, they will live until Asr. On certain occasions, blood circulation is cut off sud- denly and a person meets their death. Sometimes, perfectly healthy individuals die unexpectedly. Wazir Muhammad Hasan Khan returned after he had gone out for some fresh air. He happily began to climb the stairs to his home when after a couple of steps he felt dizzy and sat down. His servant asked him whether he required assistance, but he responded in the negative. Then, he ascended two or three more steps, but felt dizzy again and died. Similarly, Ghulam Muhy-ud-Din, a member of Kotli, Kashmir, was met with a sudden death as well. In short, we have no idea when death will come and this is why it is crucial that we do not lose sight of it. Sympathy for the cause of religion is a great thing, which confers honour on a man in his agony of death. It is stated in the Holy Quran: 1 ٌ ٌ عَظِيْم ء ْ ِ شَي ۃ َ السَّاعَ ۃ اِنَّ زَلْزَلَ Verily, the earthquake of the Hour is a tremendous thing. The ‘hour’ also refers to the Day of Resurrection; I do not deny this, but here, it is the agony of death that is being alluded to in reality. For death is a time where a man’s relations are severed completely. An individual is suddenly separated from their pleasures and attachments, and a strange tremor shakes the person, as though they were gripped from within. Therefore, the sum total of man’s good fortune is for him to be mindful of death, and not be too attached to the world and its pleasures so that when the final hour arrives, it is painful to part from these attachments. A poet has said in relation to the world and its comforts: ٓاگنہ ت � ن � ت � ش س ک یں ہمہ را ہب � ا ح دنشک و اگہ گنجب �بصل اگہ 1 al-Hajj , 22:2 p. 30