Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 157
9 November 1905 157 great disturbance and an uproar, some clapped and whistled, and some started shouting obscenities. The leaders of Amritsar stood up and explained to them again and again, and the police tried to silence them and make them sit down, but no one obeyed. So much uproar was created that the lecture had to be stopped, but efforts to disperse the people failed. Furthermore, when the Promised Messiah as was about to board the vehicle to leave, stones and bricks began to rain down. It was the sheer protection of God that we were all saved; otherwise, stones were falling on us like the people of Taif had pelted stones upon the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. At this very moment, the Promised Messiah as said: It was necessary that this sunnah also see fulfilment because this has been happening with all the Prophets. In the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the opponents hatched similar plots when he would speak, making noise during the recitation of the Holy Quran so no one could hear the Holy Quran. 1 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 35, p. 4, dated 15 November 1905