An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 270
270 Background On April 11, 1900, I dul A dha provided an opportunity to the assembled Ahmadis from Sialkot, Amritsar, Batala, Lahore, Wazirabad, Jammu, Peshawar, Gujrat, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bombay and Lucknow etc. to witness a historic occasion at the Masjid Aq sa which had recently been extended. It was, therefore, decided that the Eid prayers would be offered in the mosque. A night earlier, the Promised Messiah as had sent a note to Hadrat Maulav i H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n stating that he intended to engage himself in prayer and suplicating the whole day and a part of the night and those who had come to attend the Eid Congregation and also those present in Qadian, should write their names and places of their residence and send them on to the Promised Messiah as so that he could remember them in prayer. Early next morning, Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m came to the Promised Messiah as and requested him to address the Eid Congregation. The Promised Messiah as said that “God had commanded him the night before to do so in Arabic. ” ( Life of Ahmad by A. R. Dard ra , edition of 2008, p. 720) After the Eid prayers, Hadrat Maulav i H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n and Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m both were asked to sit near the Promised Messiah as and take down verbatim the speech that he was going to deliver in Arabic. It was a wonderful experience and people sat round the Promised Messiah as and everyone was conscious of a striking change in the countenance of the Promised Messiah as. There was a flow of eloquence, a Divine cadence and a depth of meaning, which one could see and read in his face. After the Promised Messiah as finished speaking, Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m conveyed to the audience the gist and substance in Urdu. While he was doing so, the Promised Messiah as also was overtaken by sudden sense of gratitude towards All a h, and he did Sajdah (prostrated on the ground), the audience also fell in Sajdah. Raising his head he told the people that he had just read