Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 217
31 March 1907 217 He is a sincere and well serving member of our Jam a ‘at. Many days earlier, there had been a revelation about his daughter that: الوہر ےس اوسفانسک ربخ ٓایئ A sad piece of news has been received from Lahore. 1 I was quite worried about its meaning. A person was even sent to Lahore at that time. However, may God make this the end of it. Taking Precaution of External Measures It was mentioned that the disease is spreading rapidly in Lahore and its impact is being felt in nearly every neighbourhood. The Promised Messiah as said: This is my directive; it is advisable that our friends in Lahore make an announcement to immediately vacate any house wherein rats have died and the disease is nearby, and to relo- cate to a house in an open space outside of the city. This is God Almighty’s directive. One should not abandon external meas- ures. It is forbidden to live in dirty, dingy, and dark homes in any case regardless of the plague or not. There is the directive of: 2 َوَزْجُّرلا ْرُجْهاَف َوَزْجُّرلا ْرُجْهاَف 1. In Badr , this revelation has been written at another place as: اوسفانسک ربخ ٓایئ ی الوہر ےس ا� [‘A sad piece of news has been received from Lahore’]. ( Badr , vol. 6, no. 27, p. 7, dated 4 July 1907) 2. And uncleanliness do thou shun ( S u rah al-Muddaththir, 74:6). [Publisher]