Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 195
UNDATED UNDATED 1 195 (Penned by Hadrat Şahibzādah Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad) Essential Admonishments for Women A girl was not on good terms with her mother-in-law. As a complaint and grievance, the girl stated before some women, 'Evil is the place where my mother-in-law and others live. ' The Promised Messiahas was very displeased with this and said: No town is evil at all. If a town is declared evil, then it alludes to its residents. Thus, it is a matter of extreme regret for a woman who brings such a statement upon her tongue or maligns her husband or his parents in this way. Afterwards, he admonished that woman at length and said: God Almighty does not like such things. This affliction is plentiful among women that they become averse on minor issues and harshly abuse their husbands; rather, they even men- tion their mother-in-law and father-in-law with harsh words whereas they are honourable elders of her husband. They take it as a trivial matter and they take this conflict of theirs to be like a conflict with the other women of the neighbourhood, whereas God Almighty has ordained their service and seek- ing their pleasure as a major obligation and has directed to the 1. Al-Hakam published these narratives under the title of 'Internal Diary'. There is no date entered on them. 'Internal Diary' represents the statements of the Promised Messiahas inside his home. (Compiler)