Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 356
356 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 rejected the true messiah, and then he claims that this dream is true. On this point a person said to the Promised Messiahas, "This fact would have been in his heart that Your Holiness is in reality the true Messiah. The Promised Messiahas said: His heart is corrupted. Like Musailimah al-Kadhdhāb [the Great Liar], he first accepted then rejected. خَتَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ ! also means the same. There existed the like of Musailimah al-Kadhdhāb before but there is no likeness of this person. 2 UNDATED The Custom of Bismillah A person submitted in writing that there is a custom among them that at the time of the Bismillah of a child, the maulawī teaching the child is given a silver or a gold plate or tablet and a silver or a gold pen and ink pot. Although he is a poor person, he desires to send these items 1. Allah has set a seal on their hearts (Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:8). [Publisher] 2. Al-Hakam, vol. 11, no. 31, p. 13, dated 31 August 1907; also, Badr, vol. 6, no. 36, p. 6, dated 5 September 1907