The Devotion of Life — Page 135
135 Hadrat Maulana Ghulam Rasool Rajekee Sahib ra narrates that Nawab Khan Thesildar once asked Hadrat Maulana Noor Din, ‘Maulana Sahib! You were already a venerable holy man. What extra did you gain by taking ‘bai’at’ of Hadrat Mirza Sahib?’ Hadrat Maulana Sahib replied, ‘Nawab Khan, I have had many benefits from the ‘bai’at’ of Hadrat Mirza Sahib. But one certain benefit that I have gained is that whereas before I used to have the honour of seeing the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) only in my dreams, now I have the privilege of the visitation in my state of wakefulness. ’ (Hayat-e-Noor by Sheikh Abdul Qadir, previously Sodager Mall; p. 194) The history of Ahmadiyyat is full of such instances where the newcomers to Ahmadiyyat experienced a great spiritual revolution in their lives. By purifying them of their faults, it converted them into authorities on the true teachings of Islam. The events of these pious and righteous changes are not fictions. They are facts and the history of Ahmadiyyat is replete with such miraculous and heart- warming facts. Such phenomenae can be observed everywhere and there is definitive evidence about these in all parts of the world. Friends! Had Jama’at Ahmadiyya not been the tree planted by God and had it been an invention of a human being, it would surely have disappeared after the death of the Promised Messiah as. As the newspaper ‘Wafadar’ wrote at the time of his demise, “If this ‘Silsila Ahmadiyya’ disappears after Mirza Sahib, then you can say that Mirza was a liar. And if it progresses and after him, his Jama’at or his