Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 325
30 April 1908 325 The Means to Extinguish the Fire of Carnal Passions The Promised Messiah as said: It is difficult to get out of the quagmire of carnal passions. If Allah the Exalted has decreed for someone that He should bestow upon him some measure of blessings, then He shows him some wonder or extraordinary Sign or some heart-cap- tivating manifestation of His own Being. Without this, the impurity of heart cannot be cleansed, and the fire of lustfulness cannot be extinguished. The Effects of Heedlessness and Audacity The Promised Messiah as said: The degree to which one is bestowed abundance of the means of worldly luxury and extravagance, is that very degree that he becomes arrogant by becoming unmindful and heedless of God and to the same degree his arrogance grows. I was stoned in Amritsar. I was maltreated in Sialkot. All these are, indeed, the effects of heedlessness and audacity. A Divine Promise The Promised Messiah as said: God has vouchsafed me a firm promise, and there is not the slightest doubt about it, and it is: