Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 428
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 428 1 August 1906 Patience upon Adversity The wife of Ha fi z Muhammad Ibr a h i m died yesterday evening. He came to see the Promised Messiah as. Addressing Ha fi z Sahib, the Promised Messiah as said: You have suffered a great shock from the death of your wife. You should now be patient so that Allah may reward you. You served your wife well. Despite the disability that you are blind, you have discharged this service as it merited. Its reward is with Allah the Exalted. Death is the destiny of everyone. This will happen to every- one, one day or the other, but for those who passed away in pov- erty being harmless, meek, and humble, it is as if Paradise comes forward to receive them, as described by Jesus about Lazarus. Supplication in Prayer You should supplicate in your own language within the formal Prayer, because supplicating in your own language develops full enthusiasm. S u rah al-F a ti h ah is the Word of God Almighty; therefore, it should be recited similarly in Arabic. The part of the Holy Quran that is recited after it should also be recited in Arabic. After that, the prescribed prayers and tasb ih [glorifi- cation of God] should also be recited in Arabic. Nevertheless, one should learn the translation of all of them, and in addition to them, one should supplicate in one’s own language so that the full attention and presence of the heart develops because the Prayer in which there is no presence of the heart is not a