Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 136
136 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 The Promised Messiahas said: Muhammad Husain always used to visit with me. He could not even spend fifteen days in Batala without coming to visit me. Once his father wanted to publish a most unpleasant announcement about him and Muhammad Husain requested me to stop his father from doing so. Hence, I stopped his father from proceeding with it. Mīr Nāşir Nawwāb stated his dream: A few days ago, I saw Muhammad Husain in a dream coming towards me. He extended his hand for a handshake, so I too shook his hand. At that instance I heard a voice, 'Whoever bows to you, bow to him. (At the time of Asr) Conditions in Afghanistan The Promised Messiahas came to the mosque and asked the latest visit- ing Maulawī from Afghanistan in Persian how cold the weather was in their country. The Afghan Maulawī submitted: It is very cold in our country. It is at its extreme especially for three months. Crops get buried under the snow. The Promised Messiahas asked: 'Which Arabic books do the peo- ple in Afghanistan read?' The Afghan Maulawī replied: Fiqh [Jurisprudence] is in vogue. They read Qudūri, Kanz, Sharḥ Wiqāyah and Hidayah. Most scholars are ignorant of many sciences. It is not the custom to study the Hadith in Afghanistan. During a train journey, an Afghan Maulawī met me. I