Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 252
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 252 I said, ‘Tell me now that I am married and have a household. ’ He replied that I was still the same as before. The Promised Messiah as said: Every person should look into his heart and see which one of the two he grieves for more in his heart: the Faith or the world? If his heart is always turned towards worldly affairs, he should worry a lot because the words of God inform us that even the S al a t of such a person is not accepted. The Promised Messiah as said: Oh, how I wish people would understand that Allah the Exalted becomes the Guardian and Guarantor for all the worldly wor- ries and sorrows of the person who becomes wholly concerned and preoccupied for the Faith! The Promised Messiah as said: I have never heard nor has any Book testified that a Prophet had ever died of hunger or that his children went around beg- ging from door to door. Certainly, I have often heard such wretched stories about worldly kings, nobles, and rich people that their children went door to door begging for food. God Almighty’s ongoing and continuous practice is that no godly believer has ever had to give up his soft and comfortable bed for a bed of warm ashes, nor have his children had to face an evil day. If people have firm faith in these things and have genuine and pure trust in Allah the Exalted, they would be freed from all kinds of spiritual suicide and heartburn.