Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 5
5 November 1906 5 Almighty. Just as there are thousands of plants and vegetables in the world that are useful in serving man in various needs, similarly, there are also thousands of animals that are useful for the many needs of man, and Hindus, too, use them in times of need. They take fish oil in sickness. Additionally, nations who eat meat have always been dominant. Hadrat Maulaw i N oo r-ud-D ee n mentioned: In Rawalpindi, a Hindu brought melons for us. He sliced, washed, and sprinkled them with sugar, and placed them before us. He then brought up the topic of eating meat. I said, ‘We do not eat meat just like we do not eat grass. Look, we do not even eat melons either. If we were melon-eaters, you would not have had to do all this. You had to remove the skin from the outside and discard it, and had to throw away something from the inside. Then, that which remained in between, you sugared that as well, making a compounded, purified product that you placed before us. It is this compounded thing that we eat. Similarly, man does not eat meat but rather consumes a novel thing that is made by mixing together many spices, ghee and meat, etc. M i r N as ir Naww a b said: If eating meat were a sin, man would have incurred the displeas- ure of God Almighty as a result of the hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats that are slaughtered. It is proven from his- tory that when a ruler or a nation inflicted cruelty on another nation, and unjustly killed them or their children, the wrath of God Almighty descended upon them, and He annihilated that empire or nation. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of