Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 128
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 128 10 February 1907 Another letter was received from the Manager of Gurukul, Gujranwala addressed to the Promised Messiah as. The Promised Messiah as directed Mufti [Muhammad Sa diq] Sahib to write its response. So the following detailed letter was written. Respected Manager Gurukal Gujranwala Salutations! Your second letter to His Holiness was received in which you have indicated that you cannot spare more than half an hour, and that for a scholar, due to their knowledge, this time is sufficient. It is submitted as a reply that His Holiness as states, Such a short time cannot be sufficient under any circum- stances for dialogue on important religious matters; therefore, I cannot participate in such a gathering. If you had allocated a time of at least three hours for my presentation, then it was pos- sible that I could have come myself, or could have sent a learned friend with my presentation. I cannot comprehend in any way that for such sublime subjects only a half an hour speech is suf- ficient. I am not bound by formalities, rather I adhere to estab- lishing the truth. In regard to your statement that for an emi- nent scholar half an hour is sufficient, I am surprised as to how you determine this assertion to be valid whereas the writers of your sacred Vedas did not stop writing their discourses until they weighed the load of a donkey, then why do you entertain such hope from me. To strangulate a point of [divine] cogni- zance before its completion is to murder the truth which no pious person would desire to do. If the measure of knowledge and learning lies in brevity to the extreme degree and a short