Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 12
12 “Since, in this a ge, you are the standard bearer of My Unity, restoring the treasure to its lost place in the world, you are as dear to me as my own Singleness and Unity. And since the Christians, as a false doctrine, have taken Jesus Christ as a Son of God, My sense of honor has demanded that I should love you, the Messiah of the dispensation of Muhammad, like a son, so that the world should know that among the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad there can be men who can attain as it were the position of the Children of God, And since day and night you are absorbed in the service of the religion of the Holy Prophet, who is my beloved, in the position of a spiritual son of this Prophet, I bless you everlastingly with My own love. ” (Tazkira pg. 67,571,638 ) 9 Hazrat Ahmad also, in his place was aware of this love which Allah had for him, and he took great pleasure and pride in it. In connection with a suit against him by Maulvi Karam Deen, pending in a court in 1904-5, when Ahmad once heard it said that the mind of the Hindu Magistrate was prejudiced against him and that he (the Magistrate) was bent upon handling the case in such a way as to enable himself to sentence him to some term of imprisonment, Hazrat Ahmad was indisposed and was lying down, resting. But when he heard this report, he suddenly rose to a sitting posture, in indignation and with great dignity he said: - “Let him dare to touch the Lion of God. ” ( Seeratul Mahdee, Part I ) He has also expressed the same sense in one of his couplets. “It is not wise to call to combat Him who belongs to Allah O thou poor fox, dare not To raise thy hand Against the Lion of God. ” ( Braheen-I-Ahmadiyya, Part V ) At another place in the same poem he says: “From head to foot That Friend of mine Lies in me concealed Therefore, O thou