Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 49
26 December 1906 49 mentions ‘confused dreams’ and h ad i thun-nafs [inspirations of the self ], these do not amount to anything. Its example is like that of a normal pregnancy that results in the birth of a boy or a girl after the appointed time of nine months and in contrast to this there is a false pregnancy. Some women desire to have children night and day due to which there develops the ailment of pseudocyesis; the belly starts bulging due to the phantom pregnancy and symptoms of pregnancy are manifested, but a bag of water comes out after nine months. Similar is the state of these visions and dreams. Until a man becomes wholly God’s this means nothing. Man’s honour lies in this alone and this is indeed his greatest wealth and blessing that he attain the nearness of Allah the Almighty. When he achieves the nearness of God, Almighty Allah causes thousands of blessings to descend on him. Blessings descend upon him from the earth as well as from heaven. How much effort did the Quraish put into eradicating the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him? They were a nation and the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was all alone, yet look! Who succeeded and who were unable to attain their objective? Divine support and assistance is a very big Sign of the one who enjoys nearness of God Almighty. Secondly, such a person appears at the time of autumn and spring sets in. The people who are not from God and make such boastful claims, their example is like the ones sitting on carrion. 1 But the one who is with God Almighty, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All- Sustaining, God is with him. He is living Himself, and will 1. From Badr : ‘What can he gain from carrion?’ ( Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 16, dat- ed 10 January 1907)