Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 195
Undated 195 Undated 1 (Penned by Hadrat Sahibz a dah Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ) Essential Admonishments for Women A girl was not on good terms with her mother-in-law. As a complaint and grievance, the girl stated before some women, ‘Evil is the place where my mother-in-law and others live. ’ The Promised Messiah as was very displeased with this and said: No town is evil at all. If a town is declared evil, then it alludes to its residents. Thus, it is a matter of extreme regret for a woman who brings such a statement upon her tongue or maligns her husband or his parents in this way. Afterwards, he admonished that woman at length and said: God Almighty does not like such things. This affliction is plentiful among women that they become averse on minor issues and harshly abuse their husbands; rather, they even men- tion their mother-in-law and father-in-law with harsh words whereas they are honourable elders of her husband. They take it as a trivial matter and they take this conflict of theirs to be like a conflict with the other women of the neighbourhood, whereas God Almighty has ordained their service and seek- ing their pleasure as a major obligation and has directed to the 1. Al- H akam published these narratives under the title of ‘Internal Diary’. There is no date entered on them. ‘Internal Diary’ represents the statements of the Promised Messiah as inside his home. (Compiler)