Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 146
146 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 Miraculous Qaşīdah The Qasidah [Ode] of the Late Qādī Zafar-ud-Din was mentioned that he had composed to compete with the Qasidah of the Promised Messiahas and God did not grant him enough respite to publish it. It is now being published by Sanaullah. The Promised Messiahas said: The one that composed the Qasidah reached his end due to his evil deeds and departed this world. He could not even publish his Qaşīdah during his life. Sanaullah does not even possess the capability to make corrections to it. ¹ 17 FEBRUARY 1907 God Almighty's Wrath and Heavenly Calamities Hadrat Hakimul-Ummat [Sage of the Ummah-Maulawi Noor-ud- Deen] cited a statement by someone who says that earthquakes and diseases take place routinely; what have they to do with the wrath of God? The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, said: Such people do not believe in God Almighty. They deny the Holy Quran. They are atheists. Were the outbreaks of diseases during the times of Mūsā [Moses] and Nūḥ [Noah], peace be on them both, without purpose or has God Almighty ascribed some reason for them? 1. Al-Hakam, vol. 11, no. 7, p. 12, dated 24 February 1907