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5 remarked: “Well, if Ghulam Ahmad says he has taken up a service then it is all right, for Allah will not let him go waste;” and in after years he sometimes used to remark wistfully: “The right path is really the one which Ghulam Ahmad has taken; entangled in worldly affairs we are only wasting our lives. ” All the same, from a natural fatherly solicitude, and in view of the apparent circumstances, the general conditions of life, the Promised Messiah’s father often felt worried on the question of the future of his younger son. And, as natural with the human mind in such circumstances, the Promised Messiah himself sometimes felt the force of this question, in some measure, towards the last years of his father’s life: but the God of Islam is most loyal as a Friend; He fully appreciates the devotion and service rendered to Him, so that, before the Promised Messiah’s father closed his eyes, to the young man, who had taken up the Divine Call as his sole vocation in life, He conveyed a most glorious condolence in a revelation in the following memorable words: “Is not Allah Sufficient for His servant?” ( Tazkira pg. 24 ) The Promised Messiah often used to say- and sometimes he used to state in on oath- that this Revelation came down to him with such force and grandeur that it sank into the depths of his heart like a nail of steel, and that ever afterwards Allah took care of all his needs and requirements in a manner not possible for a human father, or any other relation, or friend. And he used to say that in subsequent years that blessings of God descended upon him, in a continuous shower, to such an extent that it was impossible for him to enumerate them. ( Kibatul Bariyya ) 2 At one place in the course of his writing, with reference to the manner and extent of the Divine solicitude for his well-being and happiness the Promised Messiah says in a vein of the utmost gratitude: “A time there was When the usual fare On which I lived Consisted of the remains From the table of others, But, Lo and Behold