Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 422
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 422 26 September 1905 (Before noon) Stay Here and Cherish these Days It is also a blessing that a person consider the companionship available in this place as a bounty. Whoever thinks that coming or staying here will harm worldly business is sick—he should treat this sickness. The engagements of the world never end and cannot come to an end until man himself puts an end to them with the help of God. There are still many things for our Jam a ‘at to understand. Motivation develops gradually. Someone is moved in one way in one gathering while in another way in another [gathering]. Therefore, unless a person stays here for sometime or keeps coming here frequently, there is little benefit, and this is a great shortcoming and a great lack of appreciation, and it becomes the cause of disrepute for the Movement. When a person enters this Movement but does not reflect attentively upon the issues we present and then if someone questions him, he is left dumbfounded. So it is necessary to read our books carefully and reflect [upon them] and stay here and cherish these days. Those who enter this Movement and believe can under- stand: Are these not the days for which many a noble one passed away in yearning? These incidents are recorded in the scriptures—how thousands of souls departed from this world in the eager anticipation that they might chance upon the time of the Promised Messiah! How wonderful if they could just experience this era, they would be so gratified, but the people of