Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 221
UNDATED 221 bedtime, put it under the bed towards the head and light a lamp. In the morning have it placed in an open public place by someone unrelated. ’ Writing this dream in the letter, he asked the Promised Messiah as if it was permissible to fulfil the dream literally. In response the Promised Messiah as wrote: It is permissible to do accordingly and fulfil the dream. Changing Singular Words into Plural in Supplications A question of a friend was presented to the Promised Messiah as asking: I am an Imam of a mosque. I desire to change the supplications that are in the first-person singular form, and pertain only to oneself, to plural form to also include the congregation that is following me in my supplications. What is the directive in this respect? The Promised Messiah as responded: It is not permissible to change any supplication that is in the Holy Quran because that is the Word of God; it should be recited as it is found in the Holy Quran. However, the supplica- tions that are recorded in the Hadith, there is a choice to recite them in plural form in place of the singular. 1 1. Badr , vol. 6, no. 14, p. 6, dated 4 April 1907