Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 370
370 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 Sufferings are an Expiation for Sins Mentioning the illness of Maulawi 'Abdul-Karim and the prayer regarding him, the Promised Messiahas addressed Shaikh Rahmatullah and said: I also pray for you in the five times [daily] Şalāt, but Allah the Exalted desires to reward His servants through suffering. The deficiencies that remain in worship are remedied by the suffer- ings brought about from qadā and qadr [Divine decree and destiny], because in the burden of worship, man instinctively takes measures to keep his physical body intact. If it is cold, he heats the water for ablution. If he is unable to stand up [for Prayer], he offers it while sitting, but the heavenly suffering inflicted by qadā and qadr is blind to the physical body. The world is not a permanent abode. It is mentioned in a hadith that continuous happiness in this world can only be achieved by a kāfir [disbeliever] because, for him, the abode of punishment lies ahead. But for a believer, life is such that at times there is comfort and at others, there is suffering; yes, life should be safe. ¹ These sufferings are atonement for sin. There is no need to despair or become anxious. خداداری چه غم داری ]If you have a connection with God, then what are you grieving about?] If there is full faith and trust in God, then even if a person is put in an oven, he will not feel any grief. Suffering also has its appointed time. Then there is again comfort after it. Just like at 1. See also: Musallam Kitābu al-Zuhdi wal-Raqā'iq, Bāb ad-Dunya Sijnu al- Mu'minin, wa Jannatu al-Kafir, Hadith 2956; see also Sharh al-Nawawi 'ala Şahih Muslim, Kitāb al-Zuhd, Bāb al-Dunyā Sijn al-Mu'min, wa Jannatu al-Kafir, vol. 18, p. 93, Hadith 2956, Al-Matba'ah al-Misriyyah al-Azhar [Publisher]