Life of Ahmad — Page 817
as QADIAN IN 1901 817 important occasions when the disciples gathered at Qadian. He was a quiet man by nature and did the bidding of his spiritual master, but out of his deep reverence for him he did not very much like to attract the public eye in his presence. He was a learned teacher and instructor in addition to being a great and renowned physician; but Maulaw i Abdul Kar i m ra was an eloquent speaker. He had a powerful, sweet and attractive voice. He gave full play to his righteous and pious emotions 183 and created in his hearers a burning and enthusiastic love and devotion for Ahmad as. He would talk in his presence in the same strain and make him the cynosure of all eyes. He delivered the weekly sermons, led prayers and wrote letters, articles and appeals in the Al- H akam. He addressed Ahmad’s as enemies and silenced them by his crushing replies. He read and corrected the proofs of Ahmad’s as books and did him all kinds of service. Both of them were real luminaries and the true companions of Ahmad as in prayer and work. Ahmad as used to go out for long walks towards the east and the north of Qadian every day in the forenoon. They and the others accompanied him. He sat in the Masjid Mub a rak in those days after the Maghrib prayers and people asked him all sorts of questions. Reports of these talks were as a rule written by Mufti Muhammad Sa diq ra and published in the Al- H akam. If 183 Emotions such as these annihilate all time; they 'Crowd eternity into an hour. Or stretch an hour into eternity. '