Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 30
Promised Messiah for all mankind-his friends, and even his enemies, for the high and low, for his own people, and for those who were strangers to him. 9. Here I am reminded of another incident in the life of the Promised Messiah, which illustrates his forgiveness and graciousness for all. Sheikh Yaqub Ali, a well known journalist, has stated in his "Hyat-i-Ahmad" that on one occasion, when the Promised Messiah happened to be in Lahore, he was on his way back to the place where he was staying, after offering his prayers in a local mosque. At one point on the route he was suddenly attacked by a strong and heavily built man, who, incidently, claimed that he was the. Mehdi, and subscribed to belief in a Kalima to the effect that the Mehdi was an Apostle of God, instead of the Muslim Kalima that. Muhammad was the Apostle of God. He took the Promised Messiah in a firm grip, and tried to throw him prone on the ground. He did not succeed in this, but I have heard from another source that on account of the 30