Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 182
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 182 The Mortal World The Promised Messiah as said: My admonition is verily that everyone is seated upon the edge of the grave. It is a different matter whether Allah the Exalted informs someone [beforehand] or whether someone dies sud- denly. Nevertheless, this is a transient world. Many have buried all the people of their homes with their own hands and buried their children, but some are so hard-hearted that death does not affect them, and no change is seen in them. This is unfortunate. This spectacle is seen a lot among the sovereigns. Hundreds of thousands die, but it does not affect them. They take wealth from the poor and indulge in luxuries themselves. A pattern of gross negligence is seen in them. 1 Undated The Late Maulaw i Burh a n-ud-D i n When Maulaw i [Burh a n-ud-D i n ra ] Sahib was mentioned, the Promised Messiah as said: Maulaw i Sahib was a man with a sufi bent of mind. He often stayed in the presence of the ascetic and the saintly. He also stayed with Maulaw i ‘Abdullah Sahib’s teacher for quite some 1. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 43, p. 2–4, dated 10 December 1905