The Magnificent Services of The Just Imam, The Promised Messiah — Page 52
Magnificent Services of the Just Imam, the Promised Messiah as , to Reform the Mutual Controversies and Distorted Beliefs of the Muslims [ 52 ] rather he would be asking the way to Gangoh [India]. Then Maulav i Mahmud Hasan says that: By comparing your enlightened tomb to Mount Sinai, I keep pleading again and again ‘show me your face. ’ See how simple I am! It could be simple-mindedness, of course, that by comparing his grave with Mount Sinai, he disrespected Mount Sinai. In that sense the couplet would not be open to criticism. But there is another sense in which such expressions are used. Gh a lib has a similar couplet: I called hi m Y u suf as [Joseph] and he did not reprimand me—that is well and good; But if he had reprimanded me, that would have been fully justified! Even if we assume that he meant the expression in the first sense, a mistake once or twice might be forgivable, but he says that he is repeating it continuously: (See Mersiyah , by Mahmud Hasan, President Deoband, p. 6–17, Published by Ma t ’ba‘ Bil a l i , Sadhora, Ambala Distt. )