Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 189
10 March 1907 189 Preaching in America This objection is invalid that why did America suffer chastise- ment when my message had not reached there. My message has spread there aplenty. Initially I had printed 16,000 flyers of an announcement and sent them to Europe and America. It was by reading this same flyer that Muhammad Webb from America had started corresponding with me when he had not even accepted Islam. After that, leaflets about the prophecy regard- ing Dowie were distributed in large numbers across America; my picture and details were published in many newspapers that were read by hundreds of thousands of people and the message of this Movement has been propagated among them. Divine Practice with Respect to Chastisement Additionally, it should also be kept in mind that the practice of Allah since time immemorial has been that when punish- ment descends then some of the good who are mingled with the mischievous are also affected. Then their accounting will be according to their individual actions. Look! The firstborns perished during the time of Moses as ; what was the fault of the firstborns? When famine hit at the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, it is clear that it impacted all and not just some. These people who raise this type of criticism are unaware of the practice of Allah.