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19 SEPTEMBER 1907 415 their situation with righteousness and piety. If someone can fast at his place of labour, then they should do so; otherwise, they will be considered in the category of the 'sick. They can fast later whenever possible. 6. The Promised Messiahas said regarding وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ It means that the ones who do not have the strength to fast. 7. The Promised Messiahas said about the Nisf-Shaʻbān [also known as Shab e-Bārat etc. ]: All these customs of halwā [a dessert] etc. are innovations. 2 19 SEPTEMBER 1907 (At the time of Zuhr) Someone's Prophecy about the Promised Messiah as The following letter by an individual named Nür Ahmad of Delhi, published in the 18 September 1907 issue of Paisa Akhbār, was read to the Promised Messiah as: Last year, in the month of October, at the residence of the officer of physicians Hafız Muhammad Ajmal Khan, in the presence of Nawwab Shajaʻ-ud-Din, chief of Loharu, Khan Bahadur Ghulam Hasan Khan, honorary magistrate and a 1. And for those who are able to fast only with great difficulty is an expiation (Surah al-Baqarah, 2:185). [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 6, no. 39, p. 6-7, dated 26 September 1907