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204 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 and who is His creation, and in whose deficiencies and excesses there is a part that is due to his nature, that God should punish him in such a way that he should never attain salvation from it. This is the belief of the Aryas that there is no salvation for man ever, and he will continue to be reincarnated, but it is not known when the hundreds of thousands of tens of millions of insects and bugs will turn human. There are hundreds of germs in each drop. How merciful is the Parmeshwar of the Aryas that the worst of times have dawned but the means for man's salva- tion have still not come into being. ¹ UNDATED Calling the Adhān in the Ear of a Child Hakim Muhammad 'Umar from Firozpur inquired, 'When a child is born, Muslims call the Adhān in its ear. Is this practice in accordance with the Shariah or is it merely a custom?' The Promised Messiahas responded: This practice is proven from the Hadith. ² Moreover, the words said in the ears at that time have a certain impact on the morals 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 13, p. 4, dated 28 March 1907 2. In Sunan at-Tirmidhi, Kitābul-Adāhī An-Rasūlillāhī sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam, Bābul-Adhāni fi 'Udhunil-Maulūd, Hadith 1514; it is written as: [Publisher] أَذَّنَ فِي أُذُنِ الحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ حِينَ وَلَدَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ بِالصَّلَاةِ