Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 366
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 366 ability and liking for an occupation that God has given, whether it be agriculture or employment or trade, but do not attach your heart to it thinking it to be the objective [of your life]. Instead, always keep your heart detached from it and consider it a trial and continue praying that God Almighty ushers in the time when you will be free to engage in the remembrance of God. This is my wish and my teaching. Whoever opposes me on account of it and mocks it, is free to do so, but this is indeed the truth. Those who are free thinkers laugh at such things and say that these people are at the level of children and take us back 1300 years, but those who possess taqw a [righteousness] and remember death can decide which of these two is correct. I also observe that these people talk like this so long as they are healthy, but when they become a little sick, they come to their senses. The Naturalist remains firm in his faith to the extent that he enjoys worldly ease and comfort, but loses his enthusi- asm for it to the extent that he faces adversity. How can a per- son who has worldly stature and rank, and sees he is held in esteem by his people, understand what religion is? If the group that seeks to reduce Prayers, eliminate Fasting, and amend the Holy Quran, progresses, then imagine what the outcome would be? The Promised Messiah as mentioned the late Naww a b Muhammad Hayat Khan in this regard. How Allah the Exalted informed me beforehand about his reinstatement, which I had also informed him about. But when he was reinstated, all the things that happened during the sus- pension were forgotten. 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 33, p. 9 to 11, dated 24 September 1905