Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 405
18 September 1907 405 اے دخا رمح رک اِیْلِی ْ اِیْلِی ْ لِمَا سَبَقْتَانِیْ. اِیْلِی ْ اِیْلِی ْ لِمَا سَبَقْتَانِیْ. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? O God, have mercy. This alludes to some dangerous trial. It is not known in what era it is going to be fulfilled. Our Jam a ‘at is very weak. Rather than advancing in faith, they incline more towards ill-thinking. I remain seriously concerned that someone may stumble. God who has fulfilled so many prophecies and has been bestowing one victory after another and constant support, it is essential that He must also put us to trial. Some people are ignorant. They do not understand the practice of Allah. They do not have the habit of reaching the correct opinion by pondering over the possible consequences, the conditions past and present, and so they often stumble. A few days ago, I saw a dream that there was a person who appears to have joined the apostates. I went to this man. The person seemed serious. I asked him what had happened to him that he had chosen apostasy. He responded that it was expedient for the time. God protect us—may no one face this trial. 1 Using Water from a Pond Water from rains and floods gathers in depressed grounds around Qadian forming a pond which is named dh a b here. When this depressed land (all or part of it) is dry, the people of the village use it as a place to relieve themselves and a lot of filth gathers there that mixes with the flood waters. 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11, no. 33, p. 2, dated 17 September 1907