Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 198
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 198 30 April 1905 S adaqah, Almsgiving, and Taubah Avert Calamities Someone asked about Atham. The Promised Messiah as said: S adaqah [charity] and almsgiving can avert calamities. If char- ity does not delay punishment, then all the Messengers would be deemed to be liars, God forbid. Read the story of Jonah as and his people. Atham died in the end, but Jonah’s people were spared entirely due to their taubah [repentance]. If Atham had died despite the extent of his weeping, wailing and silence, what would have been the difference between him and Lekhram? God Almighty wants to show the difference between the auda- cious and the non-audacious. 1 1 May 1905 A True Muslim A Christian of Muzaffargarh district did taubah [repentance] and became a Muslim at the hand of the Promised Messiah as. Advising him, the Promised Messiah as said: Due to the past lifestyle, religion, and the customs and culture 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 6, p. 6, dated 11 May 1905