Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 190
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 190 of the Quran indicates proper precautions should be exercised. At the epicentre of the epidemic where the epidemic is raging, precaution should be exercised, but this, too, does not mean that sympathy should be abandoned altogether. It is never God’s intention that a person should remain so averse to a corpse that it amounts to disrespect, and in doing so, the entire Jam a ‘at be disrespected. Remember well that this should never be done in the future. When God Almighty has made you brothers, then why is there such aversion and dis- tance? When he will die, no one will take care of him either, and thus the rights of brotherhood will be violated. God Almighty has established only two types of rights: the rights of Allah and the rights of His creation. Someone who is oblivious to the rights of Allah’s creation eventually abandons discharging the rights of Allah as well, because fulfilling the rights of His creation is in fact also a Divine command, which falls under the rights of Allah. Remember well that trust in Allah the Exalted is also important. Do not think that you can protect yourself just by exercising precautions. Unless one forges a genuine bond with God Almighty and becomes a beneficial human being, Allah the Exalted will not care for him at all even if he runs around frantically making a thousand attempts. Do those people who contract the plague not take precautions? I have heard that an Englishman who lived near Naww a b Sahib in Lahore became infected, even though English people take many precautions. Mere precautions are nothing unless there is a sincere relationship with God Almighty. So, remem- ber to never neglect the rights of your brothers in the future, or else the rights of Allah will not be upheld either. God Almighty alone knows best how long this plague, which has become cen- tred in the Punjab, will last, but this is what I have been told: