Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 262
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 262 Hidden upon Hidden Means and Resources Various matters concerning the earthquake were being talked about. The Promised Messiah as said: We should keep track of what is happening so that when the prophecy is fulfilled, it can be announced to the public. The Promised Messiah as said: Common people’s knowledge is limited to the extent that things happen due to common material causes. To dismiss things so simply is a grave mistake, however. The means avail- able to the decrees and determinations of God are sometimes hidden beyond hidden, and they are only related to [God say- ing] 1 ْنُك ُنْوُكَيَف ْنُك ُنْوُكَيَف [ kun-fa-yak u n which others cannot even com - ] prehend. If means existed only to the extent that these people have understood, it would be tantamount to them having taken possession of Divinity. If the wise among the earlier peoples had known the causes of the punishments that befell them, why would they not have saved them? But this did not happen. This is because those causes were hidden beyond hidden. I am certain that many people will be guided to the straight path by this extraordinary Sign. 2 1. ‘Be!’ and it is ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:118). [Publisher] 2. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 27, p. 3, dated 31 July 1905