Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 445
UNDATED destroy them and if he was in error in not accepting them, then God should cause him to die. Because both of those people were liars, both of them died. Ghulam Dastgir also performed the mubāhalah in the same manner and had written that I pray the same as Muhammad Tahir did. And because the person who was in front of him was true [i. e. Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas], so Ghulām Dastgīr himself perished. ¹ 445 UNDATED2 Tarāwīḥ Prayer Akmal Şahib of Goleki inquired from the Promised Messiahas in writ- ing that there is an emphasis on waking up at night and offering Prayers in the holy month of Ramadan. But in general, the labourers and farm- ers who do a lot of hard physical work are negligent in performing such acts. Therefore, would it be permissible if they were to offer 11 rakāt of Tarāwīh Prayers in the first part of the night instead of at the end of the night? The Promised Messiahas replied: There is no harm in this; they could offer these [Tarawih Prayers]. 1. Badr, vol. 2, no. 39 dated 27 September 1906, p. 4 2. This diary is probably from the first week of October 1906. (Compiler)