Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 179
10 March 1907 179 should ever be harboured with anyone due to any worldly mat- ter. What value is there of the world and its means that you should harbour animosity with someone for its sake? Sheikh Sa‘d i , upon whom be mercy, has mentioned a won- derful incident. Two people had great animosity with each other, so much so that they were offended that both existed under the same sky. One of them passed away by the decree of God. The other became joyous over this. One day he went to his grave and excavated it. He saw that his fine body was cov- ered in dirt and insects were eating it. Seeing the deceased in this condition, he saw before his eyes the ultimate fate of this worldly existence and he was greatly overwhelmed, and cried so much that the grave of the deceased became wet. He had the grave repaired and had the following inscribed on it: ہک ےسک رمبگ اشدامین نکم ےسب امندن ازوے سپ درہت Celebrate not the death of anyone, For you too will not have very long to live after it. Man must indeed discharge the right of God, but a big right is of kith and kin which is very difficult to discharge. On a small incident, a person thinks that a certain person spoke harshly with them. Then when alone, he goes on growing this ill- thought in his mind and makes a mountain out of a grain of rye and continues to increase in malice according to his ill-think- ing. All such animosities are impermissible.