Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 42
I had offered my Prayers, I would have no answer if I missed it. " His servants said to him that it was 12 in the night already and far too late for him to be up early, as, even if he went to sleep at 9 o'clock it was not his wont to be awake early in the morning. He told them that they should in any case wake him up failing which he threatened to punish them. Accordingly the servants awakened him in the morning. The poor fellow was not used to observance of prayer. But nevertheless he got up as his servants aroused him from sleep, and started towards the mosque half-asleep. . On the way when he would stumble his servants would run to steady him. He reached the mosque somehow and managed to say his prayers while yet in a sleeping state. After prayers as he started to go, he left his shoes there and being overpowered by slumber, started out with somebody else's tattered shoes on his feet. When he had covered half the distance, a servant happened to see the mistake and called out in surprise "Nawab Sahib, you are wearing somebody else's shoes. ". This opened the eyes of the Nawab too and casting a glance at his feet, he said "go ye hence and change the shoes lest any one should accuse me of theft". . Because of this incident, I learnt in the morning that he had, in compliance with my advice, offered his prayers in the mosque and being under the influence of overpowering sleep had missed his own soft and comfortable shoes and started back with an old and tattered pair of shoes belonging to someone else. Now, it is evident that no Nawab has a mark of identity inscribed on his face. Suppose the owner of the shoes had turned up and seizing hold of the Nawab by the throat threatened to hand him over to police on charge of theft, he might have been punished but this error