Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 17
17 the Spring of life that shall save you. What am I to do, what should I do to make this glad tiding penetrate into your heart, with what beat of drum should I cry in the streets that this is your God, so that people should hear it; and with what medicine should I treat their ears to make them hear. ” ( Kashti-i-Nuh ) Friends, give thought to these words, and try to form some idea of the depth of this love which seems to be crying restless at the bottom. Of course none of us is in a position to see the full force of this love. But no matter in what measure it is given to us individually to form an estimate, each according to his own capacity and his own spiritual vision, there is not the least doubt that all of us shall benefit spiritually, feeling an elevation and a purification of the heart, corresponding to our assessment of the love which the Promised Messiah had for Allah. LOVE FOR THE HOLY PROPHET 1 After the Promised Messiah’s Love of God, comes the questions of his love for the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him); and we find that in his field also occupies a position of eminence of which we fail to find any other instance. In one of his couplets he says: “Next to God, I am drunk With the love of Muhammad: If this be Kufr,