Scattered Pearls — Page 13
12 on the lips of the Promised Messiah namely that: "All pathway of Deen (faith) and beautiful moral behaviour lies in, and passes through, the vale of a reverential and *considerate attitude towards others". 6 up,. The patience and steadfastness of purpose shown by the Promised Messiah was most extraordinary. The great obstacles he had to encounter in the pursuit of his. Mission; the thorny jungles and dangerous valleys he had to traverse; and the towering, forbidding mountains he had to scale along this perilous path, are illustrated by every single moment of the life he lived. The moment he made a public announcement that he had been called to a Divine Mission, a storm of opposition rose on all sides, unprecedented in its wide sweep and violent fury. . It appeared that pitched against this storm one single human being, in a frail bark, trying to pull it to a safe haven, with an oar that was no more than a bit of straw. . The fury of the winds and waves now lifted him and now flung him down into the troughs of the waves even as a piece of paper is lifted up in a storm and thrown about. But Hazrat Ahmad was never daunted by these storms ; in fact he ignored them completely, intent on his own task, singing the praises of God at all times, marching boldly along his path, his heart brimful with the firm conviction that since Allah had called him to this Mission, He Himself would guard him against every peril, until his work was done; and this was the patient firmness and steadfastness of purpose which wrung, even from his bitter opponents, the tribute that quite irrespective of the question whether in their eyes his claim to a Divine Mission happened to be true or false, there could be no question of any kind that in regard to this Mission, to the very last moment of his life, he remained firm, as a rock, on the conviction that it was a Mission to which he was raised by. Allah himself, and that always he remained most true to this Mission. After the Promised Messiah had passed