Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 321
29 December 1905 321 that time, neither wealth nor children nor other loved ones will come in handy for whom the side of religion was abandoned. These are the Days to Please God Now, remember that the very God who gave the news of this age thirteen hundred years ago is now informing us that the time is near that great events will manifest. If one waits for these Signs and zeal develops only after them, the reward will not be the same as today. On the contrary, Almighty Allah has further stated that if someone believes at that time, it would not be so much as slightly comparable to its value since even the worst k a fir [disbeliever] would realize the world is mortal at that moment. I have heard that a very wealthy Hindu died in one place at the height of the plague. When he died, he gave the keys of his wealth to his brother, who also died. And in this way, his entire family was destroyed, and the last one, when he died, presented the keys to a local landlord who refused, asking what he would do with it. Ultimately, that wealth was deposited into the treas- ury of the Government. It is true that when the days of fear come, even the most contemptible and wicked people become inclined towards s adaqah [charity] and almsgiving. However, these deeds are to no avail at that time because God’s wrath is already kindled. Nevertheless, the one who fears God Almighty and makes peace with Him before the punishment comes, will be saved. So these are precisely the days to please God Almighty. I say without exaggeration that the extent to which God Almighty has given me the proof of His existence, I do not have the words with which to express it. It is that very God who informed me during the time of Bar a h i n [ -e-Ahmadiyya ] of all the