Real Revolution — Page 186
186 to the temptation of spending a portion to meet his own requirements, with the result that he is not in a position to return the money on demand. . Apparently they do so in all honesty of heart, but they are in fact guilty of misappropriation, even though it may be of a temporary nature. Real honesty demands that the sum should remain lying with the trustee, in tact, until demanded back, and handed over without the least delay. In Delhi at the time of the revolt of 1857, Hakeem Mahmud Khan and his family were widely reputed for a strict sense of honesty in matters of such trust When the revolt assumed frightful forms and proportions, and people began to flee from. Delhi, they flung their valuables wrapped in bundles over the compound walls of his house, it having been under specially protective arrangements made by the Maharaja of Patiala, for. Haleem Mahm Khan was his Court Physician. . Some of these people came back to claim their properties sometimes after long years, but the articles were returned to the owners in tact, without delay. This is the example which every member of the Community should set, and every. Ahmadi should become so well known for the strictest sense of honesty that people should not hesitate to entrust thousands and hundred of thousands for safe keeping to any man they knew to be an Ahmadi.