Blessings of Khilafat — Page 142
142 with God’s beauty and excellence. But despite the fact that God is the most beautiful and the most lovable of all, the most Benevolent and Beneficent of all, the world—incapable world—looks at Him with contempt and disdain. He is the Lord of all the worlds, and before His glory and grandeur everything lies worthless, but the way He is being treated by the world is utterly deplorable. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra used to relate about one of his teachers that he saw a dream when he was in Bhopal that he was standing near a bridge in the outskirts of the town. There he found a leper whose whole body had been infested with worms. The flies were resting on his body. He asked him who he was. He said that he was God, his Lord. He said that he had read so much praiseworthy about God in the Holy Quran; that He is so beautiful and there is none who is comparable to Him. What has become of His condition? God replied to him, ‘My countenance that you are seeing is not the one I possess in reality. This is how I look through the eyes of the people of Bhopal. ’ Examine yourselves closely, and analyze your actions, your words, your sayings; the time you are moving and the moments you are resting. How you see God as compared to the things that you love in this world, lest your view of God be the same as, or similar to, the people of Bhopal. Remember it well that God is entirely free and pure of all ugliness, vice and disfigurement. Story of H H H H a d d d d rat A A A A dam as It is sad to see how some Muslims react to the story of Hadrat Adam in the Holy Quran. Some Muslims ask why, on the instigation of the Satan, Hadrat A dam as caused us to be expelled