Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 41
41 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim trial and affliction upon your shoulders, yet they are all, in their entirety, removed from you just as clouds van- ish when pierced by the bright rays of the sun. Among hundreds of thousands, the rare heart and extraordi- nary calm and composure, and peaceful heart that you have been blessed with is so that you may be clearly rec- ognised as one who is not from this world, but from heaven. The people of this world have not recognised you. What they ought to have done was honour you and give place in their hearts to accept that you are the Promised Vicegerent of God, a servant of the Seal of Prophets, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the one who has revived Islam. A Mountain of Magnanimity Now, as far as overlooking the faults of others and magnanimity is concerned, how many accounts of the Promised Messiah as shall I relate? On one occasion, a woman stole some rice from the home of the Promised Messiah as. A thief knows in their heart the fault of their own action and for this reason, the restlessness in their posture and the manner in which they look here and there is distinct in nature. A sharp-sighted person noticed her and then apprehended her. A huge clamour arose. She was caught with a sack of rice under her arm, some 15 kilograms in weight. From every direction, people were scolding and rebuking her. His Holiness as