Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 448
! ! 448 Muhammad sa. ” Thus, sometimes God Almighty uses His own enemy to s peak the very thing which support s Him. Once, a priest came to the Promised Messiah as. A discussion aro se around whether Arabic was more concise or English. The Promised Messiah as said, “Fine. What is the English translation of the Urdu sentence, ‘ Mera paani ? ’ ” The priest answered , “My water. ” Haz rat Sahib as replied , “ The Arabic word, ﻤ ﺎ ئ [ m y ] is sufficient. ” The priest was embarrassed. Thus, it was Allah ’s discretion that the Promised Messiah as spoke that very word , which proved concise in the Arabic language. Thus, God Almighty blessed the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa with Kauthar [abundance]. Compared to that time, his believers are now born in all the world. It is Allah ’s might that the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa are spread throughout the world. Even after all this time has passed, we still sit here and invoke D urud [blessings] up on the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. The third meaning of ‘ this age ’ is “I will send a person who will be very charitable and will distribute charity and alms in abundance. ” The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa refers to this age, saying that the Promised Messiah as will distribute money among people , but they will reject it. People wrongfully assume that this means gold or silver , but people do not reject gold or silver. One night , someone gave another person some alms. The person who received the alms happened to be a thief. The thief gave it away , saying how some foolish person handed m e this money himself. Th e next morning , that man made fun of him for giving charity to a thief. The next day, that person gave alms again and it happened to be to a prostitute. People made fun of him again , saying that he gave charity to a woman whose money is spent on obscenity and sin ful acts. On the third day, the man once again handed fifty to a hundred rupees to another person, who just happened to be very weal thy. The next morning, there was a n uproar around the fact that he had handed a wealthy person alms. W hat use would he have for that money? Yet, all tho se people accepted the money , for no one r eject s gold or silver.