Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 73
21. Love attracts love. For God, and for the. Holy Prophet Muhammad, the Promised Messiah cultivated a love, in its strength, its depth, its intensity, which was unprecedented indeed; and then, as a consequence of these two loves, he cultivated in his heart sympathy and love for the creatures of God, to the highest point. . In recognition of this threefold love, love, then. Allah gave him a body of followers bound to him in chains of the highest devotion and loyalty, in point of the sincerity and the depth of their faith, their capacity for sacrifice, who closely resembled the blessed Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. In the teeth of the most bitter and sustained opposition, his followers continued to make an un-interrupted progress, and Allah conferred every kind of prosperity on them. By the time when the Promised Messiah passed away, the number of his followers had risen to the impressive figure of 4,00,000; and of this large number, every single individual, in his love and devotion, was like a moth flying most ardently round the flame of a candle, yielding life itself in the intensity of its passion. In fact one feels highly amazed when a comparison 73