Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 280
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 280 were more deaths this year than all of the previous years and it remains to be seen what will happen in the future. It appears that the plague will exceed even the current level. There was mention of certain requests from some Christians who wished to come out of the darkness of misguidance and into the light of guidance. The Promised Messiah as said: If someone is interested in religion, Allah the Exalted provides everything for him. The end is not good of those idle individu- als who serve no purpose and only worry about eating, drink- ing and accumulating wealth. Such people prove to be injurious later on. Response to the Objection on God’s Attribute of Mercy An atheist from Lahore in his newspaper, J i van Tut, objects to God’s attribute of mercy on account of the death of people at various places resulting from natural disasters and the plague. The thought does not even occur to the simpleton whether any sensible individual has ever condemned the Government for being cruel or merciless for sending the wicked to jail or sentencing a criminal to the gallows. To punish the unjust for their injustice is in itself an act of mercy. Are the inspectors of a jail and the judges of a session court all cruel and tyrannical in the view of this foolish atheist? Should all these courts of law be shut down? 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11 , no. 18, p. 10, dated 24 May 1907; see also Badr, vol. 6, no. 21, p. 4, dated 23 May 1907