Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 84
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 84 Repentance: The Precept Agreed upon by 124,000 Prophets But after all this, I tell you that the gifts of Almighty God’s mercy are vaster than the oceans. If He is Shadidul-Iqab [Severe in punishment], then He is Ghafurur-Rahim [Most Forgiving, Merciful] as well. The one who repents—occupying himself with Istighfar and La haul and making his faith his priority over the world—is most certainly saved. It is a precept agreed upon by 124,000 Prophets that those who are fearful of His punishment and occupied in remembrance of God, are most certainly saved when the chastisement suddenly seizes them. But those who weep, wail, and lament when the punishment is already upon them, and beg and repent at that time when even the most courageous will be trembling and scared—they are faithless and are not saved at all. The Impending Days of Difficulty I don’t know how many of you truly believe what I am saying, but still, I affirm the same—that the days that are coming are most difficult. Evil beliefs and evil deeds have incited the wrath of God. All Prophets foretold about this time that an epidemic will break out and deaths will be plenty. Then it is written in the Hadith that the disbelievers would die as far as the gaze of the Messiah would reach. 1 This does not mean that everyone upon whom he casts his eye would be destroyed. What it means is that those who would become a target in his eye would be destroyed and killed. However, it 1. S a hih Muslim, Kit a bul-Fitan, wa Ishr a t al-Sa‘ia t B a b adh-Dhikr ad-Dajj a l, Hadith Number 3773 [Publisher]