Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 367
24 April 1906 367 1 ۤٗهُّسَمَي اَّلِا َنْوُرَّهَطُمْلا۰۰۠ ۤٗهُّسَمَي اَّلِا َنْوُرَّهَطُمْلا۰۰۠ اَلَ اَلَ The more one is purified the more divine cognition increases. 2 24 April 1906 (From the pen of Miy an Mer a j-ud-D i n ‘Umar) The Spiritual Condition of the Jam a ‘at will Continue to Strengthen Travelling on the morning coach, I arrived in Qadian around 1 PM today. The Adh a n [Call to Prayer] was made soon after that. After per- forming ablution, I reached the small mosque. I saw that the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, was sitting in the small room, and Maulaw i Syed Muhammad A h san and Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Al i were sitting next to him. Miya n Ghul a m Ras u l, the barber from Amritsar, was describing his own condition. On this, the Promised Messiah as said: Be patient. Our Jam a ‘at is in its initial phase. They are still like a weak tree. Look! The largest tree, Shisham [i. e. North Indian rosewood] or any other tree when small, can be uprooted with very little force, even with one’s nails. Similarly, some people 1. Which none shall touch except those who are purified ( S u rah al-W a qi‘ah, 56:80). [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 2, no. 17, p. 2, dated 26 April 1906