Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 545
18 May 1908 545 18 May 1908 (After Zuhr Prayer in Lahore) Answers to Some Questions of Professor Wragge Professor [Clement Lindley] Wragge, whose meeting and question and answer session with the Promised Messiah as has been published previously, again met with the Promised Messiah as on 18 May 1908 on the motivation of and through the person of Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiq. After exchanging some niceties, the following question and answer session took place. Question: What is your belief about God? Is He finite or is He omnipresent, and does He have a physical persona and emotions? Answer: I do not believe God to be finite, nor can God be finite. We know about God this much that just as He is in the heavens, so is He on the earth. There are two forms of relation- ships that He has. One is the general relationship that exists with all creation. The other is the special relationship which exists with special people who, after purifying their own selves, advance in their love for Him. He, then, becomes so near to them as if He speaks from within them. This is a wonderful thing about Him that despite being far, He is near, and in spite of being near, He is yet far. He is extremely close, but yet we cannot say that He is near as one body is near to another body.