Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 197
UNDATED 197 said that Barakat [Blessing] is not in the house, then it would imply as if there is only misfortune there. The Promised Messiahas commented: This is not the case. There is no harm with giving a name. If someone says that Barakat is not inside, then it only means that that person is not inside, not that there is no blessing. Or if one says that Jannat is not there then it does not mean that Paradise is not there and Hell is, rather the person whose name is Jannat is not there. Someone said that in the Hadith such a practice has been forbidden. The Promised Messiahas said: I do not consider such ahādīth to be correct. Objections arise against Islam because of such ahādīth because the names, 'Abdullah [Servant of Allah], 'Abdur-Rahim [Servant of the Merciful] and 'Abdur-Rahman [Servant of the Gracious], that God had taught, can also suffer from the same criticism. When a person says that 'Abdur-Rahmān is not inside, then it can- not mean that 'Abdush-Shaitan [the Servant of Satan] is inside. Rather, it means that a person is given a particular name as a good omen so that the individual exemplifies that name. The Treatment of Bahadur Shah Zafar by the British It was mentioned that a newspaper has taken great issue and expressed its displeasure over the treatment meted out by the British in the time of the last emperor of the Mughal Dynasty. The Promised Messiahas said: The matter is not so. God is not unjust to any people or to