Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 23
23 in matters where the Ahmadiyya Movement was concerned. In the time of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, Mirza Sultan Ahmad finally joined the Movement, and by doing so he turned us three brothers into four, but the incident which I want to mention here pertains to a period when he had not as yet joined the Movement. It once occurred to me that the early life of the Promised Messiah- his general attitude, behavior, habits, etc. , and when asked, he expressed himself in the following words: “On e thing I noted very specially and very clearly in father. He could not bear even the slightest reference to the Holy Prophet in derogatory words. On the slightest hint or expression to this effect, his face would become red, and the look in his eye would harden with anger; and he would immediately leave the place and the company where any such thing was said. The feeling which father had for the Holy Prophet was indeed one of Ishq - an Ishq of which I have not seen an instance in anyone else. And Mirza Sultan Ahmad repeated this last portion a number of times, with a great deal of emphasis. ” ( Seeratul Mahdi, Part I) 8 The instance I am now going to relate pertains purely to the inner domestic atmosphere of the home of the Promised Messiah. He was feeling slightly unwell, and was resting in bed, with mother and our maternal grandfather, Hazrat Meer Nasir Nawab by his side. The conversation turning to Hajj, grandfather happened to remark that since now facilities of travel had come into existence, the pilgrimage should be undertaken. The eyes of the Promised Messiah at the moment were wistful, deeply wistful, and swimming in tears of a great longing for a sight of the Sacred Places of Mecca and Medina, and from time to time he swept away these tears with his finger. On hearing what our maternal grandfather had said, he remarked: “Yes, that is true; and this is indeed the wish of my heart. But I often wonder whether at all I would be able to bear the sight of the last resting place of the