Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 367
24 APRIL 1906 لا يَمَسُّهُ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ 10 The more one is purified the more divine cognition increases. 2 367 24 APRIL 1906 (From the pen of Miyāń Merāj-ud-Din 'Umar) The Spiritual Condition of the Jamāʻat will Continue to Strengthen Travelling on the morning coach, I arrived in Qadian around 1 PM today. The Adhān [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 Maulawī Syed Muhammad Ahsan and Maulawi Muhammad 'Alī were sitting next to him. Miyań Ghulam Rasul, the barber from Amritsar, was describing his own condition. On this, the Promised Messiahas said: Be patient. Our Jamāʻat 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 (Sūrah al-Waqi'ah, 56:80). [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 2, no. 17, p. 2, dated 26 April 1906