Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 130
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 130 The people are in a strange kind of darkness and can’t see anything. Those taken to be their leaders are using strange machinations. The world—and only the world—is their objec- tive. A seed was sown in favour of Islam. Instead of watering it they are bent upon ruining it. 1 8 January 1908 Most Signs of the Latter Days have been Fulfilled The Promised Messiah as said: It is very strange that although most of the Signs regarding the Latter Days have been fulfilled, people still do not pay heed. Allah the Exalted is Self-Sufficient and does not care for those people who adopt an attitude of heedlessness with regard to Him. These same people suffer great hardships for worldly affairs but to research into religion they are not pre- pared to endure even a hundredth of the effort [they expend for the world]. On the contrary, they make all kinds of frivo- lous excuses whereas just as they are carrying out other ordi- nary worldly tasks, they could also conduct research into this ِ ْم ی ِ أَلنَّبَإ ِ الْعَظ ِ ْم ی ِ أَلنَّبَإ ِ الْعَظ [the Great Event] upon which the welfare of their life in the Hereafter depends. 1. Badr, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 3, dated 16 January 1908