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26 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad dian to search the home of the Promised Messiah as , there was no prior news or knowledge of the impending search, nor could there have been. On that morn- ing, our respected Mir Sahib heard from somewhere that today a warrant would be coming along with handcuffs as well. Mir Sahib was shocked and became ex- tremely anxious. He hurried in to inform the Promised Messiah as and as he was overcome by emotion, he expressed the matter at hand with grave difficulty. His Holiness as was writing Nur-ul-Quran at the time and he was engaged in a very subtle and delicate subject. The Promised Messiah as raised his head, smiled, and said: “Mir Sahib! People wear bangles of silver and gold on occasions of worldly joy. I shall deem that I have put on bangles of iron in the way of Allah Almighty. ” Then, after a pause, the Promised Messiah as said: “But this will never happen, because the government of God Almighty has its own ways of wisdom. God does not allow His divinely commissioned vicegerents to be humiliated. ” 1 Week Ending on 10 July 1899 Boundless Joy Due to a Glad-Tiding of Religious Nature The most astonishing and interesting highlight of this week—which increased our faith immensely—was a letter addressed to the Promised Messiah as. The letter states with strong evidence and detail that in the region of Jalalabad, Kabul, there is a shrine 2 of Yuz Asaf, the Prophet, and it is renowned in the area that 2000 years ago this Prophet came from Syria; there is also some land dedicated to hon- our this shrine by the ruling power in Kabul. There is no room here for further details. The Promised Messiah as was so overjoyed by this letter that he said: “Allah the Exalted is a Witness and He is All-Knowing—even if someone had brought me millions of rupees, I would never feel as much joy as this letter has given me. ” Brothers, is not the pleasure elicited by a religious matter a sign of those who are sent by Allah? Who, in this age, feels such delight when the supremacy of God’s Word is established through such matters? 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 3, no. 24, dated 10 July 1899, pp. 1-2 2 Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiq Sahib ra relates: “When the Promised Messiah as was writing his book Jesus in India (perhaps in 1899) a friend by the name of Miyan Muhammad Sultan, a tailor from Lahore, mentioned: ‘Once I had the opportunity to visit Afghanistan where I was shown a grave, known as the Tomb of Lamak, the Prophet. ’ The Promised Messiah, on whom be peace and blessings, said: ‘Sometimes the place where a saint or Prophet sits is also turned into a tomb and then people seek blessings from it. It is possible that on his way from Palestine to Kashmir, the Messiah of Nazareth travelled through Afghanistan and stayed in this country somewhere for a few days; and then for some reason, he became renowned in that region as Lamak. ’” —See Dhikr-e-Habib, By Mufti Muhammad Sadiq ra , pp. 65-66 for more details. [Publisher]