Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 4
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 4 Lahore, and they will benefit from it. I say this because it is a kind of betrayal to conceal what arises in the heart. Treatment of Certain Diseases Some women’s illnesses require an open air environment for treatment, so I am against the extreme purdah prevalent among some noble families. Some women should be taken for walks in the open air now and then. Look, Hadrat Ayesha Siddiqah ra used to go out when she needed to attend to the call of nature. Is the nobility of today’s women greater in rank than her? Hadrat Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen said: ‘Experience teaches that there are three remedies for melancholia. The first is to walk around. The second is not to remain idle; keep busy doing something. The third is to use asafoetida and wormwood. ’ The grace of Allah the Exalted is needed to beget children. We learn from the Holy Quran and the Torah that this is in the control of Allah the Exalted. The mother of Hadrat Y u suf [ Joseph], peace be on him, was very old and had no children. It is written about her in the Torah that God said that He opened her womb. 1 So, it opens only if God opens it. (But remember, this does not mean that treatment by mid- wives is prohibited. ) 2 1. Genesis 30:22 2. Al-Badr, vol. 3, no. 40, p. 2, dated 24 October 1904