Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 346
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 346 of means. There is a saying in Punjabi, ا اتپ ی امرے ٓاپ ےت انم درھا� [‘He himself causes the death, but calls it a fever’]. It is strange that [the state of a patient’s] comfort continues to get worse and worse and nothing can be understood. There is no indica- tion as to what is going on. There is no possibility of asserting anything. Observe that where a complication is [decreed] to arise, the condition continues to deteriorate on its own. Treat one symptom, and suddenly other illnesses develop through vomiting or due to some other reason. But where recovery is destined, it is effected even through the remedies suggested by women like fennel and anise, and the women can take care of the treatment on their own. Medicine is a conjectural science. There is no possibility of asserting anything. When the disease is [decreed] to increase, it continues to do so despite treating it. Death is inevitable and it will certainly come one day. It is stated in a noble hadith that fortunate indeed is the person who dies after carrying out good works. 1 How long can one live? Whether one lives for 60 years or 100 years, death is the inevitable end. Mental Illness Hadrat H ak i mul-Ummat ra [Sage of the Ummah—Maulaw i Noor- ud-Deen ] read a letter aloud in which several symptoms of someone’s ailment were mentioned and there was a request to the Promised Messiah as for prayers. The Promised Messiah as said: 1. In Sunan at-Tirmidh i, Abw a bul-Qadr ‘An-Ras u lill a hi s allall a hu ‘alaihi wa sal- lam, B a b m a J a ’a Annall a ha Kataba Kit a ban li Ahlil-Jannati wa ahlin-N a r, Hadith 2142; it is written as: َا رَسُول َ هللاِ؟ ی ُ َسْتَعْمِلُه ی َ ْف ی َ ک لَ: ی ِ ْرًا اسْتَعْمَلَه ُ فَق ی َ اِن َّ هللا َ إِذَا أَرَاد َ بِعَبْد ٍ خ َا رَسُول َ هللاِ؟ ی ُ َسْتَعْمِلُه ی َ ْف ی َ ک لَ: ی ِ ْرًا اسْتَعْمَلَه ُ فَق ی َ ِاِن َّ هللا َ إِذَا أَرَاد َ بِعَبْد ٍ خ ُوَفِّقُه ُ لِعَمَل ٍ صَالِح ٍ قَبْل َ المَوْت ی ِقَالَ: ُوَفِّقُه ُ لِعَمَل ٍ صَالِح ٍ قَبْل َ المَوْت ی قَالَ:. [Publisher]