Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 248
248 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 20 JULY 1905 Interpretation of a Dream Maulawi 'Abdul-Karim narrated a dream that he felt as if his clothes had caught fire but when he poured water on them, the clothes came out completely safe as if the heat had not reached it at all. The father of Maulawi Şahib is sick. The Promised Messiahas said: 'This indicates that he [his father] will get well. '1 22 JULY 1905 Limits of Prayer The death of Khan Şahib Zulfiqar Ali Khan's elder wife was men- tioned. The Promised Messiahas directed this humble one [Hadrat Mufti Muhammad Şādiq, may Allah be pleased with him] to write a letter of condolence to him on his behalf, saying that he should exer- cise patience; the system of mortality and death operates in the world. Patience is rewarded. The Promised Messiahas said: Prayers are indeed accepted, but prayers never put an end to this system of mortality and death. This has been the case dur- ing the time of all the Prophets. Those who make their faith 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 3, dated 20 July 1905