Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 404
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 404 14 July 1906 (Before Z uhr Prayer) Transient World A respected Hindu family member, Diwan Sahib, who had come to Qadian only to meet the Promised Messiah as , came to see him before the Z uhr Prayer and expressed his desire to receive some advice from him. The Promised Messiah as said: The manner of every person’s sympathy is different. If you go to a doctor, he can only sympathize with you by curing some illness of yours, and if you go to a ruler, his sympathy is to pro- tect you from the oppression of an oppressor. Thus, the context of everyone’s sympathy is different, and compassion on my part is that I advise you that the world is transitory. If this idea becomes firmly established in the heart, all false happiness is destroyed, and a man turns his heart toward God. Man makes extended plans and undertakes illicit actions sim- ply because he does not know how many days of life there are. When a person realizes that death is standing before him, then he steps back from sinful activities. Godly people know daily about themselves and their friends and what will happen to them. Therefore, they cannot be content with the objects of the world, nor can they take comfort in them. Look! At this time, the plague has spread in the country. God Almighty informed me about it at a time when there was no sign or trace of the plague here. At that time, I told peo- ple about it. Remember! When heedlessness and worldliness