Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 520
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 520 is not a big thing. If I wail and cry despite so many favours from Him, then there would not be a person more ungrateful than I. Furthermore, He had informed in advance that Mubarak Ahmad would die soon as is written in Tiry a qul-Qul u b. Secondly, this is the very meaning of friendship, that some matters of the friend be accepted, and some things be accepted by him. To have one’s own desires continuously accepted is not friendship; to feel miserable when the time comes to accept the friend’s decision. Thus, when I have forged a relationship with God Almighty then it is desired to accept some of His deci- sions and have some accepted by Him. 1 UNDATED (The Pure Word) Fulfilment of the Prophecies about the Western Nations The balloon used in wars was under discussion and the matter that some Englishmen are planning to communicate with the life on Mars. The Promised Messiah as said: This is the fulfilment of that which was previously said about them that they would shoot arrows into the skies. 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 44, p. 8, dated 31 October 1907