Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 332
332 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 A Vision I saw that I was standing in one place. There is a curtain before me. A voice from behind the curtain says: 'Do you know who I am? I am God, I exalt whom I will and abase whom I will. ' The Promised Messiahas said: It is stated in the Holy Quran: وَمَا كَانَ لِبَشَرِ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ اللهُ إِلَّا وَحْيًّا أَوْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ أَوْ يُرْسِلَ رَسُولًا فَيُوْحِيَ بِإِذْنِهِ مَا يَشَاءُ إِنَّهُ عَلَى حَكِيمٌ That is, no human being has the capability that God should speak to him except by wahī [revelation] or from behind a veil or by sending a messenger who reveals wahi by His command of whatever He pleases. He is the God of great glory and wisdom. 2 26 AUGUST 1905 Today, at the time of the Zuhr Prayer at Masjid Mubarak, it was men- tioned before the Prayer that there appears to be an inclination towards Islam in Japan, and some Indian Muslims have decided to go there. Upon this, the Promised Messiahas said: 1. Sūrah ash-Shūrā, 42:52 [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 1, no. 21, p. 2, dated 24 August 1905