Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 50
50 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 infuse life into him. He will manifest the fulfilment of the promises that He had made to him. ¹ This is my advice time and time again that you analyse your nafs [self] repeatedly as much as is possible. Giving up an evil is also a Sign. Seek from Allah alone that He may give you the ability because: خَلَقَكُمْ وَمَا تَعْمَلُونَ 2 It is He indeed who has created the faculties. Then I also see another defect. Some people get tired [of praying]. I have received such letters, the writers of which have disclosed that they offered Prayers for four years, or for so many years, and continued making supplications, but to no benefit. I consider such people unmanly. One should not get tired. شرط عشق است در طلب مردن گر نباشد بدوست راه بردن If one cannot find a way to reach his friend, Love demands that he perish in this quest. I would even go so far as to say that one must neither tire out nor withdraw even if thirty or forty years elapse; even if emo- tions continue to increase. Almighty Allah does not let perish 1. From Badr: 'He does not die until the promises of Almighty God given to him are fulfilled, and there occurs no diminution in his Movement whatsoever. (Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 16, dated 10 January 1907) 2. Whereas Allah has created you and your handiwork? (Sūrah aş-Şaffāt, 37:97) [Publisher] 3. From Badr: 'To give up evils is not in anyone's own hand. Get up at night for this and make supplications before God in the Tahajjud [pre-dawn] Prayer. He is the One who created you. خَلَقَكُمْ وَمَا تَعْمَلُونَ - )Sūrah aş-Şaffāt, 37:97). So, who else is there who can repel these evils and give you the ability to do good deeds?' (Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 17, dated 10 January 1907)