Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 203
14 March 1907 203 The Sign of the Death of the Elite It was mentioned that the death of prominent people was being reported in the newspapers now. The Promised Messiah as said: This is in accordance with the Divine revelation that informed that: ِ مِن َ النَّاس ِ وَالْعَآمَّۃ ِ مِن َ النَّاس ِ وَالْعَآمَّۃ Meaning that, ‘Even the prominent, as well as the ordinary, will perish by the plague. ’ Punishment of Hell will Not be Eternal A letter from a member was presented that the Chakrhalavi Mullah had published his belief that when a person passes away, their soul also dies and that both will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment so that the one who has died earlier from that Day is not punished longer and the duration of the chastisement of the one who died closer to that Day of Judgment is shorter. The Promised Messiah as said: This is the opinion of the ignorant Chakrhalavi. This objection can be valid only if the punishment of Hell is everlasting from which man is never going to be freed and he is going to live in Hell forever. This belief is completely wrong and is wholly opposed to the Holy Quran and the Hadith. It is proven from the Holy Quran that after passing through a period of punish- ment in Hell, man will gradually be saved from the torment of Hell. God Almighty is Ghaf u rur-Ra hi m [Most Forgiving and Ever Merciful]. It is entirely unreasonable that the human being whom God Almighty has Himself brought into being,