Different diseases were being discussed. The Promised Messiah (as) observed:
Doctors have much occasion to derive benefit from observing tragic spectacles. All kinds of sick people come to them. Some get their hands and feet amputated. Others are so sick that they are like لَا مِنَ الْأَحْیَآءِ وَلَا مِنَ الْأَ مْوَاتِ they can neither be counted among the living nor among the dead.
However, the frequency of these encounters desensitizes as well, and it must needs be, for a soft and tender-hearted person cannot perform this kind of work since it demands immense courage to perform surgery.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
The mullahs of these present times are similarly forced to observe the many admonitory scenes of funerals. Unfortunately, they, too, have become hard-hearted. A newspaper wrote about a mullah in Calcutta. He was sued by someone to whom he owed some money. He pleaded in his defence that in the current year Calcutta was enjoying good health and not many people were dying. Therefore, he could not make any payment, but—as many people were forecast to die in the subsequent year on account of famine and disease—he expects decent income and then to pay off the loan.
Similarly in this city, were two brothers, both being mullahs who were locked in a mutual feud, causing the Muslim households in the area to be divided between them. One of the mullahs took exception on the basis that the people in his division were generally of short stature and upon their deaths, the sheets covering their coffins that would be taken off, would also be short [resulting in lower profits when sold].
These people have descended to such depths. May Allah have mercy!
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
Once I was reflecting upon the Urdu translation for the Quranic verse:
قَدۡ اَفۡلَحَ مَنۡ زَکّٰٮہَا ۪ۙ﴿۱۰﴾وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَنۡ دَسّٰٮہَا ﴿ؕ۱۱﴾ 1
Thereupon I was inspired to write the following couplet:
کوئی اس پاک سے جو دل لگاوے
کرے پاک آپ کو تب اس کو پاوے
He who seeks the love of the Pure One,
Must first purify himself, for only then would he meet Him.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
Straightforward, true, and simple logic is what is present in the Holy Quran. There is no complexity in it. It is a straight path that God has taught us. One should study the Quran carefully and make note of the dos and don’ts discreetly and act upon them, and just by doing this, he will get to please his God. As for the phraseology coined by the philosophers and Sufis [Mystics]—they mostly become cause for people to stumble because they embody ambiguities and intricacies.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
A venerable person has written—I believe in good faith with some good intention, despite his statement being incorrect—that Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani was not a perfect saint and as his nuzul [descent] was not complete, he only had su’ood [ascent], and that is why he showed many miracles. Had his nuzul been perfect, he would not have shown any miracle. The extent to which this statement contradicts the Holy Quran is quite obvious. This statement is totally against the Holy Quran and the Hadith. The truth is that Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani was from among the perfect servants of God. If one were to criticize him for his miracles, then this criticism would extend to all Prophets. Such is the consequence of following the wrong phraseology of these Sufis, which is not affirmed by the Holy Quran and Hadith.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
Hardly a night passes when I am not shown some vision concerning the future. Many of these matters slip from memory by the morning and I am unable to record them to prevent them from being forgotten. Therein lies the wisdom of God. He makes me remember what He desires to be remembered and makes me forget what He desires to be forgotten.2
1 Surely, he prospers who augments it, and he who corrupts it is ruined (Surah ash-Shams, 91:10–11). [Publisher]
2 Badr, vol. 6, no. 47, p. 10, dated 21 November 1907