A Gift for the Queen — Page 2
2 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD Thanks to God who showed us this day of great joy that we witnessed the sixtieth jubilee of our honoured Queen, the Empress of India and England. Who can imagine the amount of joy this day has brought? Congratulations filled with joy and gratefulness from us to our benevolent and benignant Empress. May God keep her joyful forever! We pray to God—who has created this earth and raised the heavens, and has put the radiant sun and the moon in our service—that may He keep our honoured ruler, the Empress of India, safe for a long time. She is bearing different nations of her subjects in her lap of kindness, and millions of people are living in peace because of her single person. May it be so that, at the ceremonies of the jubilee (with its ecstasy, millions of hearts from British India and England are fluttering in the excitement of joy like the flowers which, excited by the cool and comforting morn- ing breeze, flutter their wings like birds), heaven should also felici- tate her with its sun and moon and all its stars just as the earth is jumping to felicitate with all its strength! May God’s grace enable our great and benevolent Empress to become as popular among the angels in heaven as she is in the hearts of all the old and young Indian and English subjects. May the Almighty, who has bestowed upon her an abundance of worldly blessings, also bestow upon her a plenitude of heavenly blessings. The Merciful, who has given her joy in this world, may He arrange for her joyful provisions in the next world too. Considering that millions, in fact countless, good deeds have been performed by such a blessed person, it would not be surprising should the providence of God cause the ultimate good to emanate from her—namely, that England may be cleared of the worship of a human being with mercy and peace, and that