Scattered Pearls — Page 62
61 very clearly, that at the moment we happen to have only one rupee with us. . He should take us only the distance he would be prepared to go and come back for that amount of money. " (Riwaayat Bhai Abdul Rahman Qadiani). So only after a short ride he came back. But after midnight he developed diarrhoea with frequency of motions, and next morning about ten o'clock he passed away. . Here I wish to add that today even after the fifty years which have since rolled away, the event of the death of the Promised Messiah, the final scene in it, is so fresh before me as if the whole thing were happening again in front of my eyes. . At the moment, however, I do not intend to recount the details. I only wish to say that from the point of worldly wealth the Promised Messiah, also, passed away exactly in the same kind of circumstances as was the case with the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him. ) It is recorded in works of Hadeeth that in the last and fatal illness of his life, at one moment the. Holy Prophet hastily got up from the mosque and hurriedly went inside his house, where there happened to be lying a small quantity of material wealth in some form, which he quickly distributed to the needy, becoming utterly emptyhanded himself in that respect. . It would be seen that almost identically in the same manner, the Promised. Messiah also spent the last coin he had with him on the eve of his death; and when he passed away, he had nothing more in his pocket. Of course Islam does not forbid a man from striving, in balance, for the goods of this world, teaching its followers in fact to pray for good in both the worlds, in this one and the hereafter; but the Prophets of. God and the Auliya stand on the point of Fagr, where these righteous people live their lives solely as the servants of. Allah, subsisting on the barest necessities, just enough to hold life together in the body. This is the reason why, in spite of being the king of both the worlds, the Holy