Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 274
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 274 Remember that there is certainly nothing so abominable as falsehood. In general, worldly people say that those who speak the truth get imprisoned, but how can I believe this? Seven cases have been filed against me, and by the grace of God, I did not need to write a single word of falsehood in any one of them. Someone tell me if God defeated me in any one of them. Allah the Exalted is indeed the supporter and helper of the truth. How can it occur that He should punish the righteous? If this were to be the case, no one in the world would dare to speak the truth, and belief in God Almighty would vanish from the world. And the righteous would die a living death. The fact of the matter is that the punishment received for speaking the truth is not because of the truth but for some of their hidden and secret misdeeds and punishment for some other lie. God Almighty has a whole list of their evils and mis- chiefs. They have many wrongs, and they get punished for one or another of these. One of my teachers, Gul ‘Ali Shah, was a resident of Batala. He also taught Sher Singh’s son Pratap Singh. He stated that once, Sher Singh beat his cook badly just for excess salt and pepper. As he [Gul ‘Ali Shah] was very simple-minded, he said [to Sher Singh] that you have committed a grave injustice. Sher Singh replied, ‘Maulaw i Sahib, you do not know. He has eaten a hundred of my goats. ’ Similarly, a man has a store of misdeeds and is caught and punished at one time or another. 1 It can never happen that the person who adopts the truth would be humili- ated because he is under God Almighty’s protection. And there is no fort or refuge as safe as the protection of God Almighty. But a half-baked thing cannot be of benefit. Can anyone say 1. It is in Badr: Similarly, a person commits a sin on some other occasion and gets caught on another occasion. ( Badr, vol. 2, no. 6, p. 3, dated 9 February 1906)