Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 375
20 September 1905 375 devotee. His devotee, upon recalling the king’s order, started weeping and his tears fell on the Sheikh and woke him up. He inquired why are you crying? He expressed his concern and said that today is the day of punishment. Sheikh said, ‘Don’t grieve, I will not be punished. I have just seen in a dream that a raging bull has come to kill me. I took hold of both his horns and knocked him down. ’ So it happened that on the same day the king fell seriously ill and his illness was so grave that he died of that very illness. These are marvellous works of the Divine which cannot be understood by man beforehand. When the time comes, some occurrence develops. All hearts are in God’s hands. He moves them as He wills. One should not despair of the mercy of God. Without His leave, not a single life can even be taken, no mat- ter how serious the disease is. A person who loses hope is an even greater k a fir [disbeliever] than an idol worshipper. The Remedy to be Saved from the Coming Plague This humble writer [ Hadrat Muft i Muhammad Sa diq, may Allah be pleased with him], narrated the dream he had seen today in which he saw that the plague had spread far and wide and someone says, or he says, that whoever wakes up and prays at night these days will be saved from the coming plague because of it. The Promised Messiah as said: This is absolutely true. One should wake up at night and pray a lot that Allah the Exalted protects us from the coming calamity through His grace and beneficence.