Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 92
92 servant, His Holiness as will forgive them and will not reprimand them even slightly. Once he gave Hamid Ali some envelopes and postcards to take to the post office. The forgetful Hamid Ali became busy with some- thing else and lost sight of the responsibility that was entrusted to him. After one week or so, Mahmud who was still a child, came running with some envelopes and postcards, and said: “Father, we have found some letters in a pile of rubbish. ” When His Holiness as saw the letters, they were the same letters just mentioned. Some of these letters were registered mail, for which His Holiness as was awaiting a response. His Holiness as called Hamid Ali, and showed him the letters, where- after he very gently said to him: “Hamid Ali, you have become quite forgetful. You should do your work carefully. ” Indignation for the Honour of Faith There was only one thing that affects, rouses and angers His Holiness as , and that is an affront to the sacred things of Allah, or a dishonour of the sacred Signs of Allah. Once His Holiness as said: “It would be easier for me to see my property destroyed and my children cut to pieces before my eyes, than to see the Faith dis- honoured and seen with contempt, and then for me to do nothing. ” During the days when the hurtful and vile book Mother of the Believers—which was noth-