Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 386
386 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 8 UNDATED Advice Given to Women by the Promised Messiahas at his Home (Written by Şāhībzādah Miyāń Bashir-ud-Din Mahmūd Ahmad) (Excerpted from the magazine, Tashhidhul-Adh-hān, June 1906) Backbiting (The Promised Messiahas said:) The Holy Quran states regarding the one who backbites that he eats the flesh of his dead brother. This disease is widespread among women. They sit and gossip till midnight and then wake up in the morning and start doing the same thing, but this should be avoided. There is a particular Sūrah for women in the Holy Quran. It has been mentioned in the hadith that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said that I saw mostly poor people in Paradise and saw many women in Hell. Pride and Boastfulness The Promised Messiahas said that some defects in women are egregious and abundant. One is to boast that we are such and such. Then, to be proud of one's caste that so-and-so is a woman of contemptible caste or so-and-so is of a lower caste than us. Then, if a poor woman is sitting