Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 282
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 282 2. Similarly, there was another incident in Sialkot. Once I was sleeping at night in the second storey of a house and there were fifteen or sixteen other men with me in the same room. The sound of tak tak emanated from the beam. I woke up the men that the beam appears to be dangerous, and the place should be vacated. They said that it was probably a rat and there was no need for any fear. They said this and went back to sleep. A short while later, I heard the same noise again and woke them up again but they did not care at all. Then the noise emanated a third time from the beam, so I forcefully woke them up and directed them out of the house, and when they had come out, I too vacated the building. I had just got on to the second step of the staircase that the roof collapsed and took the other roof with it and fell down. The beds broke into pieces, and we all were saved. This is the miraculous protection of God Almighty. The beam was held from falling until we all had vacated from there. 3. Similarly, once a scorpion was found dead in my bed within the blanket and a second time one was caught crawling inside the blanket, but on both occasions, God Almighty saved me from their harm. 4. Once my clothes had caught fire but I was unaware. Another person saw this and alerted me and extinguished the fire. God Almighty does not have only one means to save a person but many. There are numerous means against the heat and burn of fire and some of them are ever so subtle that people are not aware of them, and God Almighty has not yet disclosed those means to the world that alleviate the burning sensation. So what is sur- prising about the fact that the fire became cool for Abraham as ? 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 11, no. 20, p. 3–4, dated 10 June 1907