Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 204
204 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 6 MAY 1905 (Before Zuhr Prayer) Praying to Allah the Exalted to Manifest His Countenance The Promised Messiahas said: We had come to the orchard to pray at the time of the earth- quake. Now we are staying here only to learn more about the news that Allah the Exalted has given, whether it [the calam- ity] is near or far. If it is learnt that it is far, we will move back [inside] after a month. It seems that this earthquake will come at such a time when no one will even be aware; however, people will have accused me of lying, alleging that this prophecy turned out to be false. This is precisely what is also understood from the Holy Quran: فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ It is the custom of Allah that punishment comes when peo- ple have completely forgotten about it. It appears exactly so from those revelations wherein God Almighty said that He will come covertly in such a way that everyone's heart will be convinced that I have lied. This is the intent behind the word بَغْتَةً ]baghtatan-suddenly[. The geologists and astrologers will all conclude in unison 1. Then, when they forgot that with which they had been admonished (Sūrah al-An'am, 6:45). [Publisher]