Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 391
Undated 391 combined Prayers. 1 Accordingly, I have had Prayers combined outside for six months; now I thought this prophecy should also be fulfilled among the women. Since it is unlawful to offer combined Prayers without necessity, God made me ill and thus fulfilled the prophecy of the Noble Prophet s as. It is every Muslim’s duty to fulfil the words of the Holy Prophet s as , because if it is not fulfilled, the Holy Prophet s as would be con- sidered—God forbid—a liar. Therefore, everyone should fulfil what is in his power accord- ing to the words of the Holy Prophet s as , and God Himself also provides the means—as He made me ill—to fulfil the words of the Holy Prophet s as. As the Noble Prophet s as once said to a Companion, ‘What will your condition be at the time when the gold bracelets of Chosroes will be placed on your hands?’ 2 After the death of the Holy Prophet, when the Kingdom of Chosroes was conquered, Hadrat ‘Umar ra put the gold bangles that had come as spoils of war on him. Although the prohibi- tion of wearing gold bracelets for men in Islam is just like other prohibitions; yet, since this was said by the Noble Prophet s as , it was fulfilled. In the same way, every other human being should also try to fulfil the words of the Holy Prophet s as. The Meaning of Two Yellow Sheets The Promised Messiah as said: Look! The Holy Prophet s as had also made a prophecy concerning 1. Musnad Ahmad ibn H anbal, Musnad al-Mukthir i n min al-Sah a bah, Musnad Abi Hurairah, Hadith 7890, vol. 6, page 246, D a r al- H ad i th, Cairo [Publisher] 2. Asad al-Gh a ba f i Ma‘rifat al-Sah a ba, B a b al-S i n wa al-Ra’, 1955. Sar a qah bin M a lik, vol. 2, page 414, D a rul-Kut u b al-‘Ilmiyya, Beirut, Lebanon [Publisher]