Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 125
19 February 1905 125 Payment of Required Mahr After that, a gentleman inquired that a man had wanted his wife to waive her due mahr [dowry], but that woman would say, ‘If you sur- render half of your good deeds to me, then I will waive [my right]. ’ The husband kept saying that he had very few good deeds; in fact, he had none at all. Now that his wife had passed away, what could the husband do? The Promised Messiah as said: The husband ought to give the mahr to his wife’s heirs. If she has children, they are also among her heirs, and can take their share as prescribed by the Shariah, and, in this scenario, the dowry that the husband had owed her becomes part of her inheritance. A Subtle Point During the conversation, Hadrat Maulaw i Noor-ud-Deen mentioned that it is a subtle fact that all past Mujaddid i n [Reformers] have had ‘Muhammad’ or ‘Ahmad’ as part of their name without exception. In Constantinople, there are people with strange names, but the Mahdi who conquered Constantinople had ‘Muhammad’ in his name as well. Exaggeration and Understatement of Miracles While mentioning the prevailing conditions of the current age, the Promised Messiah as stated: One group absolutely denies miracles, such as the Naturalists and Aryas, etc. These people have chosen the side of