Scattered Pearls — Page 59
58. Nasir Nawab, our maternal grandfather, went to the. Promised Messiah, in great anxiety and much perturbed, to apprise him of the situation. In fact he was so agitated that he could speak with difficulty, and said that a Police. Officer had arrived, with handcuffs and a warrant for arrest. At the moment Hazrat Ahmad happened to be engaged on his book, later published under the title Nurul. Quran. He simply looked up with a quiet smile, and said: "Meer Sahib, people put on bangles of gold and silver on auspicious occassions. . We shall take it that in the way of God we have put on bracelets of steel. ". After a slight pause, however, he continued: "But rest assured this shall not be. . The Government of God is conducted in. His Wisdom, and in the case of His own appointed Vicegerents he does not allow such things to bring them to disgrace. " (Alhakam, Vo . III, No. 24, page 1 & 2, as quoted in Malfoozaat). Here, indeed, is a case of the utmost grandeur. On the one hand the Promised Messiah was so wholeheartedly prepared for any kind of sacrifice that he was ready to put on handcuffs, and look upon them as a source of adornment and distinction in the way of God. But at the same time he was fully confident, too, that Allah will not allow that disgrace to come to him; and at a moment when a high police officer was standing at his door to arrest him if necessary, he smiled sweetly before a perturbed disciple, and ressured him that Allah will not allow him to come to disgrace. With the deepest unconcern he said to this disciple: "No, no; this shall not be my Master in Heaven will save me from this disgrace. "