Scattered Pearls — Page 27
26 that once the Promised Messiah was sitting in a room,, working on a treatise he was writing at the time, when. someone knocked loudly at the door outside. The Promised. Messiah asked Muftee Sahib to open the door and see who it was, and what it was that he wanted. Hazrat Muftee:. Sahib then opened the door, and the man told him that he had been sent by Maulvee Muhammad Ahsan of Amroha, with the happy news that a great monaazirah (religious controvercy) had taken place between him (Maulvee Muhammad. Ahsan) and a big scholar of the non-Ahmadi side, in which Maulvee Muhammad Ahsan had inflicted an open, and manifest defeat and discomfiture on the opponent. . Hazrat Muftee Muhammad Sadiq relates that when he conveyed this message, to the Promised Messiah he smiled! sweetly and said: "From the loud knock I had got the impression that perhaps Europe had come into the fold of Islam, and that the man knocking at the door had brought that happy news, knocking so loudly in his excitement. ' " (Seeratul Mahdee, Riwaayat, 302 & Zikr-i-Habeeb compiled by Hazrat Muftee Muhammad Sadiq). Most probably this remark by the Promised Messiah was of the nature of a passing humerous comment on the incident. Incidently, however, it throws a flood of light on the importance the Promised Messiah attached to acceptance of Islam on the part of the European nations, and on the fact that real joy and happiness for him lay in the great Idol of. Christianity being broken and in Europe being brought over to Islam. It was in the grip of the same strong desire of his heart that the Promised Messiah once said in a poem : “In support of the Truth. There is now discernable a great. Excitement and zeal on the heavens ;. And Angels are descending. On people with righteous souls. . The mind of the freeborn of Europe