Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 206
206 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 Is it Permissible to Benefit from the Inventions of Disbelievers? A question from a person was presented that if the railway is the donkey of the Dajjal [Antichrist], then why should we ride it? The Promised Messiahas said: It is not forbidden to benefit from the inventions of disbe- lievers. The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had said that to cross breed a mare with a don- key [offspring being a mule] is dajal [deception], thus the one who does this is dajjal [one who deceives], yet the Prophetsas would continue to use mule for a mount. A kāfir king [i. e. al-Muqauqis] had sent the Prophetsas a mule as a present and he would constantly ride it. ¹ 19 MARCH 1907 The Sign of Dowie's Destruction The Promised Messiahas said: I did not have any personal quarrel with Dowie rather he was the only messenger of the Christian faith in this age, and he was engaged in prayer and effort to annihilate all the Muslims of the world. Thus, with his death, a verdict has been delivered 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 13, p. 4, dated 28 March 1907