Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 445
25 September 1907 445 the basis of knowledge and sound judgement is seen in a per- son, our account ought to be narrated to them, and one should go on increasing acquaintances one by one. It is not the case that everyone is cruel-natured and mischievous, but the good and sincere are also hidden among them. In the first part of the night, a person saw a vision about Lahore that there adultery, immorality, impiety, vulgarity, and indecency was rampant. Then he woke up and pondered that if that was the condition, then why hadn’t the town been destroyed? But when he slept again late in the night after the Tahajjud Prayer [pre-dawn worship], he saw that there were hundreds of people who were engaged in supplications and engaged in the remembrance of God. Some were giving in char- ity and alms, and some were helping the destitute and orphans. In short, there was an enthusiasm for repentance and seeking God’s forgiveness. Then he understood that the city was saved due to these people. This is the practice of Allah that extremely immoral and wicked people are saved for the sake of the right- eous and the pious. Remember! There are always some virtuous people hidden [among the rest]. If everyone were evil, then the world would have been destroyed. 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11, no. 35, p. 7–8, dated 30 September 1907