Scattered Pearls — Page 20
. 19. In fact when a guest took leave, he always felt the wrench as if a very close relation of his own were parting from him. . In regard to his guests the Promised Messiah wrote in one of his poems :— "When guests come with love,. I experience a great comfort. In my mind, for it makes me. Very happy. But then there comes. A pang when I think that soon. They would take their leave. And have to go. May Allah. Bless for me this day. And this time which He. Has shown to me! This world,. Indeed, is a caravan sarai,. For all we meet here, at last. Have to go departing from us :. Even those who stay here. For a hundred years, even they. At last have to depart. . But in all this there is no room. . For dissatisfaction of any kind,. Since this world is a home. That has no permanence at all!. May Allah bless this day. And this time, in His grace. And mercy which He has shown. To me. " (Mahmud kee Ameen). While on the subject of the great hospitality which was a prominent characteristic of the Promised Messiah, I would here like to refer to the visit which Maulana Abu Nasr ; the elder brother of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, paid to. Qadian. He came to see Hazrat Ahmad in 1905. Highly intelligent, open-eyed and observant, on his return, he sent his impressions of the visit to the Vakeel of Amritsar, wherein he wrote: "What did I see? I saw Qadian; I met. Mirza Sahib, staying with him as his