Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 239
13 APRIL 1907 13 APRIL 1907 A Perfect Believer Does Not Die of the Plague Whatever is there, it is in God's hand. He does what He pleases: بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ) 239 Behold! What a distinction God has put between us and our enemies! It is this very Qadian in which many died, yet our Jama'at was completely protected. Amongst those Muslims are many gaddi nashīn [the custodians of shrines]. Several claim to be recipients of ilhām [revelation], and several make themselves out to be God's near ones, but has any of them also been given this promise: إِنِّي أُحَافِظُ كُلَّ مَنْ فِي الدَّارِ I shall safeguard all those who are in your house. Certainly not. If anyone has such a claim, they should come forward so that Allah may prove their lie. Look! Whoever amongst them made such a claim was immediately seized. Charāgh Din of Jammu had made the claim, and then there was Ilāhī Bakhsh who wished for me to die of the plague, but both of them perished from the plague itself. A perfect believer never dies of the plague. The example of all the previous Prophets, peace be on them, is present. Did any prophet die of the plague? Then study the biographies of the 1. In Whose hand is the kingdom of all things. And to Him will you all be brought back (Sūrah Yā Sīn, 36:84). [Publisher]