Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 93
Lecture Ludhiana 93 receiving visitors. ‘O my Lord, do not leave me alone, and You are the Best of inheritors. ’] This is the powerful prophecy that was made in those days and was printed and published, and was read by people of every faith and persuasion. In such a state, during such a time when I was lying in a hermit’s cell of anonymity, and no one knew me, God Almighty said that people would come to me from faraway lands. They would come in abundance, and all types of means and necessities for their hospitality would also come. Since one person cannot provide all the essentials of hospi- tality for thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, nor can he bear such expenses, He Himself said: عَـمِیْقٍ. ٍّ فَـج ِّ یَاْتِیْك َ مِن ْ كُل عَـمِیْقٍ. ٍّ فَـج ِّ یَاْتِیْك َ مِن ْ كُل [People will come to you by every distant track so that the track will become deep due to excessive travel. ] Their provisions shall also come with them. And then, since man tends to grow weary of large numbers of people and is likely to behave discourteously, He forewarned me not to be discourteous to them and also told me not to get tired upon seeing the overwhelming flow of people. You should now reflect whether it is within the scope of human capability to foresee an event twenty-five or thirty years in advance, and that too about one’s own self, which then comes to pass exactly as predicted. There is no guarantee for so much as a single minute of human life or longevity, nor can we affirm whether we will even live to breathe our next breath—so how can conveying such information enter inside one’s facul- ties and foresight? I say it truthfully that this was a time when I was absolutely alone and hated even meeting people, but since