Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 24
24 Holy Prophet (i. e. without breaking down)” ( Riwayat Nawab Mubaraka Begum ) This incident, as I have already remarked, pertains entirely to the inner domestic atmosphere of the home of the Promised Messiah, but a closer and thoughtful look at it reveals an unfathomable depth of the feeling of love which rolled in the heart of the Promised Messiah like the mounting waves of an ocean in flux. Where in the world is the true Muslims who does not long to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Prophet of a man whose soul, at the very thought of a pilgrimage, flies to the blessed Sepulchre in fancy, and from a rush of emotion his eye begin to swim in tears, and he closed them in a kind of spiritual ecstasy. 9 From this Ishq of the Promised Messiah for the Holy Prophet, Ahmad had the greatest love for his progeny and his blessed Companions. Some idea of the depth of this love may be formed from the following incident. Once, during the month of Moharram, the Promised Messiah was resting on a bed when he called to him our sister Mubaraka Begum and our brother Mubarak Ahmad, who was the youngest among his children. “Let me tell you the story of Moharram. ” He said. Then in a tone of great sorrow and suffering, he related the incidents connected with the martyrdom of Imam Hussain; and all the time tears were flowing from his eyes, which he would wipe off with the tips of his fingers from time to time. At the end of the story he said in a great anguish: “This was the heartless and blo ody injustice which the obnoxious Yazeed perpetrated upon the grandson of the Holy Prophet. But God soon after overtook these tyrants with His punishments. ” ( Riwayat Nawab Mubaraka Begum ) During the narration of these events the Promised Messiah was in the grip of very strong and tender emotions and the thought of the tortures inflicted upon the grandson of his beloved master was causing him intense anguish. All this powerfully reflects the intensity of the Love he had for the Holy Prophet. In one of his poems the Promised Messiah says: “I swear by the beauty And honor of thine own face,