Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 12
12 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 8 Earlier, while the late Maulawi 'Abdul-Karim was still alive, there was another revelation that: دو شہتیر ٹوٹ گئے۔ [Two rafters have broken down. ] إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَجِعُوْنَ ]Surely, to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return. ] This revelation is also very frightening. God Almighty best knows its meaning. ¹ 13 OCTOBER 1905 Life is Fickle The Promised Messiahas said: I am amazed at those people who trust they will go on living. Sometimes death suddenly overtakes an individual. A person came to the elder Mirza Şāhib² who checked his pulse and told him to go home immediately and told the bystanders that if anyone wanted to see a dead man walking, they should take a look at him. He died immediately after reaching home. Similarly, Khalifah Muhammad Husain of Patiala went 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 28, p. 2, dated 13 October 1905 2. The reference is to Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, the father of the Promised Messiahas. [Publisher]