Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 255
26 July 1905 255 A Revelation and its Interpretation َ َاَحْبَبْت ُ اَن ْ اُعْرَف ِف ـخْفِی ًّا َ ْزًا م ْن َ ك ُ ْت ْن ُ ك َ َاَحْبَبْت ُ اَن ْ اُعْرَف ِف ـخْفِی ًّا َ ْزًا م ْن َ ك ُ ْت ْن ُ ك Translation: I was a hidden treasure and I willed to be recognized. The Promised Messiah as said: This is a manifestation of God’s attributes. One attribute is man- ifested in some epoch and remains hidden in another. When an era of reformation becomes far removed, and people become deprived of the knowledge of God Almighty, then in order to reveal His knowledge, Allah the Exalted brings into being a man through whom His knowledge spreads in the world. However, in the age in which He is hidden, the worship of the devotees and the asceticism of the ascetics also remain incom- plete and useless. This revelation is also recorded in Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya. But now, again, this appears to be the time of its special manifestation. This is why it has been revealed again. The Hidden World of Causes The Promised Messiah as said: There is a spiritual effect in prayer and meditation which can- not be understood by materialistic people who only see phys- ical means. There is an abundance of the subtlest of means in the practice of Allah that becomes active after supplication. Humidity is said to be one of the physical causes that brings on sleep. However, even without any causes of humidity, I have expe- rienced it many times that a kind of sleep overwhelms me during which a series of revelations descend, and those are sometimes