Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 346
346 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 of the Promised Messiahas] that the mother of Ishaq had died and that Ishaq was also near death. This letter was written by Ishaq's brother, who was very young at that time. I became very concerned upon reading this letter because my wife was ill and had a high fever. It was inappropriate in such a condition to give her the news of her mother's death. It was in this state of concern that the revelation came: إِنَّ كَيْدَكُنَّ عَظِيمٌ [Your device is indeed mighty. ] I understood from this that it was merely a ruse to call [him to return]; otherwise, everything was fine. Maulawi 'Abdul- Karīm was here at that time. He was told [this revelation], and Hafız Hamid Ali was also told, and he was the one who was sent there. The situation there was exactly the same as God had informed me through revelation. Sheikh Noor Ahmad submitted that he was also here on that day and was a witness to this incident. ¹ 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 25, p. 2, dated 21 September 1905; al-Hakam, vol. 9, no. 33, p. 2, dated 17 September 1905