Scattered Pearls — Page 3
2 the Promised Messiah,* which, from their inter-relationship, we might call a Necklace of Three Strings. This year, however, I desire to throw light on some unrelated characteristics, habits, sayings and moral status of the. Promised Messiah, though of course, really speaking, the character and moral conditions of no human being can be said to be truly unrelated to each other. My point in doing so is that our friends, and the whole world at large, should realise the greatness and grandeur of the Messiah of the Islamic Dispensation, both when we study his Life and Personality systematically, as a well knit entity; and also when we look at it at random, from here and there, without planning our approach, or the angle of our observation, this being the reason why I have entitled this address as DURR-I-MANTHUR, or Some Scattered Pearls. To be sure, these scatterd pearls, too, are held together in a chain of close interrelationship, one side of which clings to the love of God, and the other to sympathy and compassion for man in general. But since moral traits represent a kind of miscellany, I have given to these observations of mine the title of Durr-i-Manthur; and with this brief introduction I begin, in the name of Allah, the. Compassionate and the Merciful, there being no capability and power except with Allah. On Him alone I lean, and in Him alone I put all my trust, and to Him alone. I turn in all humility. 1. It is very curious and most interesting to note a point, for people endowed with taste and vision, which carries an extremely fine significance-namely, that while it is true that the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement came in the spirit and likeness of Jesus of Nazareth, and speaking in general this is the name and title by which he is usually known and spoken of among his followers, in his life, his personality, and his moral qualities, he inherited more from the Holy Prophet, his teacher *Otherwise known as Hazrat Ahmad.