Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 296
296 MALFUZAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME IO Important Advice for those Engaged in Preaching The Promised Messiahas said: The rich cannot listen to lengthy discourses. A preacher should say a small anecdote which could catch their attention immedi- ately and accomplish the task. Polygamy The subject of polygamy was under discussion. The Promised Messiahas said: The Shariah of God has permitted it because the need exists. If a man is able but his wife is unable to bear children, why should he remain childless and make himself barren too? Effort is made to preserve the breed even of a thoroughbred horse. Why should the progeny of a human being be jeopardized? Christian priests characterize a second wife as adultery. What do they have to say about the earlier Prophets? It is said that Solomonas had several hundreds of wives, and so did Davidas [have many wives]. If the intent is pure and the objec- tive is righteousness, even having ten or twenty wives is not a sin. If, God forbid, more than one marriage is all adultery, as per the Christians, then their God was also born from the prog- eny of Davidas. In that case, it is a great recipe, and a very blessed practice. Christian priests are drawn to useless things and do not look at the real issue. It is written in the Gospels that if someone has faith even as small as a mustard seed, and orders a mountain to move from here to there, it shall move. Christians need to