Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 13
18 November 1906 13 18 November 1906 Spiritual Measures for Warding off Evil The topic was discussed that the Government was arranging to have rats exterminated in some cities where the spread of the plague was feared, and that a San a tan Hindu newspaper journalist, who consid- ered it a sin to kill anything living, opposed this proposal under the opinion that since rats carry the contagion of the plague, catching and killing them would inherently spread this lethal contagion. The Promised Messiah as said: These are external measures, but so long as spiritual measures are not taken, it is impossible for the plague to end in this country. It is possible, just as the newspaper journalist wrote, that catching and handling plague-infected rats may be dan- gerous to some extent, but the essential point is that all these cunning stratagems are like the delusions of an alchemist that gold might be made from perhaps this plant or perhaps from that one. God Almighty is standing right now brandishing an unsheathed sword and demands the world to believe in His existence. It will not be until the people of the world abandon their wickedness, stubbornness, prejudice, and obscenities, and embrace virtue—repenting from ridiculing the Signs of God Almighty—that God Almighty will remove this punishment from their head. It is surprising that our Government resorts to physical means but does not incline towards God Almighty. It is heard about the previous Islamic rulers that in times of such calami- ties they would get up at night and beg prayers, weeping and crying. Those who sincerely believe in God behold the specta- cle that every single atom falls under the authority of God to