Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 242
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 242 filth is filled in such and such a person’s heart? If he remained engaged in supplication, then don’t the Christians supplicate? Do they not weep at times? Therefore, such matters should be entrusted to God. However, when there is proof of belief then such people who die from the plague are martyrs. Allah the Exalted manifested thousands of Signs, but these people are such that they will not believe. If impurity of heart is not there, then sometimes only a single point suffices. Look! When the Bai‘at [Pledge of Allegiance] was taken in Ludhiana, there were only about forty people. Now there are 400,000! Has such success ever been achieved by a fabricator? Notwithstanding, I even prophesied about it? Fine, if I did not show any Sign, then what did their ‘Moses’ show? What—this!—that he died of plague? If this is the very fate of God’s Auliy a’ [Friends, i. e. Saints], then only God can save Islam. (At the time of Z uhr) Practical Testimony Accompanies True Revelation The end of those who are captivated by mere words is like that of Il a h i Bakhsh. Remember, revelation alone is utterly useless unless it has practical testimony with it. Look! When the disbelievers objected: 1 َتْسَل اًلَسْرُم َتْسَل اًلَسْرُم The response given was: 1. Thou art not a Messenger ( S u rah ar-Ra‘d, 13:44). [Publisher]