Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 188
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 188 (After Friday Prayer) Advice on Mutual Compassion and Brotherhood His Holiness, H ujjatull a h, the Promised Messiah, peace and blessings be on him, delivered the following address on mutual compassion and the rights of brotherhood: I consider it necessary to state only this much that my Jam a ‘at is under a sort of delusion. Perhaps they have not carefully pon- dered upon my words. Their error and deception is that if a member of my Jam a ‘at dies from the plague, such callousness and coldness is shown that no one is even willing to carry their coffin. In fact, as Q adi Am i r Husain has written, this misery is even worse than mourning. Remember that you now embody two brotherhoods: the Islamic brotherhood and the brother- hood of this Movement. Thus, aversion and coldness in the presence of these two brotherhoods is a highly objectionable matter. I think that if such wayfarers [the departed souls] had been in their homes, even those who consider us to be outside the pale of their religion and disbelievers, they would not have displayed this kind of apathy. But why does this cold attitude exist? Because two things are not taken into consideration which verge on opposite extremes. If these are abandoned and moderation is adopted, such complaints would not arise. Why would aver- sion be shown toward such deceased persons when we are commanded: