The Ocean of Light — Page 135
135 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS days of ease and wealth may return to them. You will find them wailing and screaming like a plagued camel in their sermons, while in their hearts they are lamenting about the easy life that they had lost, and their tears will wound their cheeks. However, the laymen think that they are crying from the fear of the Day of Judgement, as is the habit of the righteous, even though they are crying because they have had to part ways with nubile maidens who used to be their drinking partners. They grieve because their happiness has lessened, and wine has become a dream for them. The horror that the lack of means of earning has inflicted upon them forces them to cry, and on top of this they lament having lost all of their friends and fellows who used to be part of their social drinking circle. Despite all this they think of themselves as the full moon and like to be the centre of attention in all gatherings. They give themselves titles such as Maulawi or Faq i h or Mu h addith , and yell at those who refuse to call them by