Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 57
57 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim medicine and they will knock on the door loudly and say in their simple, village tongue: “Mirza Ji! Open the door, will you. ” The Promised Messiah as will stand up as one obeys the call of an honourable master, and will speak to them and advise them with a cheerful face. In our country, even the educated classes give little value to the importance of time, so villagers are naturally all the more prone to waste time. Sometimes a lady will begin rambling about useless things and some will begin to complain about their own domestic issues—about their mother-in-law and sister-in-law—and this will waste a whole hour, but the Promised Messiah as will sit and listen with patience and dignity. He will not openly say, or even indicate slightly that enough is enough, you should go now; you have your medicine, what more do you want, you are wasting my time. Ultimately, the lady will stand up, alarmed at how much time it has been, and then leave. Once, quite a few village ladies came to have their children seen, and at the same time, a few of the lady attendants working in the house also came to ben- efit from this opportunity. At the time, the Promised Messiah as needed to write a very important treatise of a religious nature, and time was of the essence. It so hap- pened that I also came over and I was astonished to see that His Holiness as was standing active and alert in the likeness of an Englishman standing on duty, ready and