Scattered Pearls — Page 46
45. In fact where a man has clean and pure intentions, with the inner windows of his heart and mind duly open, to let in the light, the mere sight of the face of a righteous man of God is enough to illumine one's own heart. The history of the Prophets and the Auliyaa of God is full of incidents of this kind, that a man came to them with feelings of great hostility, but with the very first look at the blessed face, he surrendered completely. In one of his poems the Promised Messiah says: "Where a man is pure of heart,. He does not need a multipilcity. Of miracles : one single Sign. Is enough to lead such a one. To the right path if there be. The fear of God in the heart!" (Braaheen-i-Ahmadiyya, Part V) 22. Hazrat Maulvee Syed Sarwar Shah, who was an old. Companion of the Promised Messiah, and a great scholar of religion, used to relate that in the days of the. Promised Messiah a man once came from Mardan to see Hakeem Hazrat Maulvee Nur-ud-Deen for treatment of some ailment, having heard the great reputation of the latter as a physician. This man was highly prejudiced against the Promised Messiah, having persuaded himself with great difficulty to undertake a visit to. Qadian, so much so that the accommodation he secured for his stay, while under treatment, was outside the. Ahmadi quarter. When he recovered sufficiently to take leave and go home, an Ahmadi he was in contact with suggested to him that he had not taken the trouble during his stay to see the Promised Messiah, but that there could be no harm to him if he should for half a minute peep inside the Ahmadi mosque. . To this the man agreed, but took care to stipulate