Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 23
Malfuzat - Volume II 23 22 June 1899 During the course of discussion yesterday, the Promised Messiahas said: "Know for certain that God will never let this servant of His go to waste and will not cause him to die until those objectives for which he has appeared are manifested at his hand. No one's enmity and no prayer against him can harm him in the least. " The Promised Messiahas said these words in response to someone who stated that this man who opposes you and claims to be the recipient of revelation¹ now says that the community will be destroyed. كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةً تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ إِنْ يَقُوْلُوْنَ إِلَّا كَذِبًا Grievous is the word that comes from their mouths. Righteousness and Purity After the aforementioned, the Promised Messiahas said in a heartfelt manner: "Yesterday (i. e. on 22 June 1899), I received the revelation many times that your community should become righteous and if you tread the subtle ways of right- eousness, then God will be with you. " The Promised Messiahas said: "It grieves my heart immensely when I ask myself what I am to do so my community may adopt true righteousness and purity?" Then, the Promised Messiahas said: "I pray so profusely that sometimes whilst engaged in prayer, I am overcome by weakness, and on certain occasions I begin to feel a loss of consciousness and feel like I may even die. " The Promised Messiahas also said: "Until a community becomes righteous in the sight of God, it can never receive divine succour. " The Promised Messiahas said: "Righteousness is the essence of the teachings found in all divine scriptures-the Torah and the Gospel etc. The Holy Quran has expressed in a single word the greatest means by which one can act according to the will of God Almighty and attain His ultimate pleasure. " The Promised Messiahas said: "I also think about selecting certain people from my community who are truly righteous, who give precedence to religion over worldly affairs, and who are devoted to Allah, so that I may assign them certain religious duties. Then, I will not care about those who remain absorbed in grief 1 2 Munshi Ilahi Bakhsh, the accountant, writer of the book Asa-e-Musa or 'The Staff of Moses. [Publisher] al-Kahf, 18:6