Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 74
is made of the quality of this large number of the followers of the Promised Messiah, with the handful of followers who gathered round Jesus. Christ in the course of his life on this earth. . The standard of loyalty and strength of faith as found among the followers of the Promised. Messiah we find far higher than anything seen in the case of the disciples of Jesus Christ; and in illustration of this point I would here refer to only five Ahmadis, taken at random, as their names occur to me at the spur of the moment, from the various conditions and walks of life. Certainly, all of these five were not such as could be called the most prominent in the Movement. were such ordinary and even their names are. Ahmadi circles. . In fact some of them obscure members that not widely known in. The first and foremost to be mentioned in this connection is Hazrat Maulvi Nur-udDin, among the topmost Ulama, and physicians of his time, in the undivided India of those days. When the Promised Messiah started taking bai'at of initiation into the Ahmadiyya. Movement, he was the one to obtain the distinction of being the first to take this pledge. He became so closely attached to the. Promised Messiah that he gave up his residence in Behra, his native place, and came to settle permanently in Qadian. When the Promised 74