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14 and workers at the headquarters, should all give careful thought to this aspect of the Promised Messiah's life, and duly learn that lesson from it without learning which there can never be any question that we shall be able to shoulder the heavy responsibilities we have inherited from the master, the Mahdee and Masih who opened our eyes while all around there was nothing but darkness. . If they also manage to rise to a stature capable of displaying a similar strength of mind and a steadfastness of purpose, living their lives truly as servants of God, making themselves into parts of this fruitful Branch, they will find, even in their own lives, that God looks aftar them, and defends them against harm, showing the same jealousy for their reputation and good name that He has alway shown for His righteous servants. One of the. Revelations of the Promised Messiah is in Punjabiand look how beautiful is this Revelation; Lovingly. Allah the Almighty says to the Promised Messiah: "If thou become solely Mine (and there end the matter). Indeed the whole world. Shall come to be thine!" (Tazkirah, page 711). On the plane of the progress of man in matters pertaining to the Spirit, this golden expression constitutes, for all mankind, a lesson of the supremest over-riding importance. Ah, if only the young and old, women and children of the Ahmadiyya Movement could cultivate in themselves a proper realisaton of this great truth and make it the beacon light of their lives : "When you have God with you,. On your side, what grief,. Or sorrow, or care. Can you possibly have!" 7. Another dominant characteristic of the. Promised. Messiah was his strong desire to render complete and the