Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 6
6 From mine own table now A large number of families Get their daily bread” ( Aeena Kamalat-I-Islam ) This relates to the days when the normal routine of the Promised Messiah’s life was deep meditation in seclusion of his own room in the upper storey of the house, or in the adjoining mosque, in which two places he spent his time in Prayer or recital of the Holy Quran. His meals in those days were sent out to him by his sister-in-law, wife of his elder brother, who managed all the domestic affairs of the kind; and more often than not these meals consisted of cold and dried up stuff, usually gone stale for having been left lying due to careless service, or something left over and above the needs of other members of the family whose requirements received preference from the lady of the house for one reason or another. From this incident, illustrative of Divine succor and Divine guardianship, those young men of the Ahmadiyya Community who devote their lives to the service of Islam, should learn a lesson of incalculable value for their future. With a clean and pure motive, if they too rely on Allah in taking up the service of Islam and the Ahmadiyya Movement, then Allah, Who is the most Beneficent, the most Merciful, the most highly appreciative of devotion rendered to him, shall in no case suffer them to go waste. For it is impossible that were a man puts his hand in the Hand of God, Allah should decline or fail to take hold of it, leaving the man alone and friendless in the world. What apt and remarkable force have the following lines of the Promised Messiah in this connection: “Who is there in this world Called Thee in distress But returned empty handed? Then how strong must be Thy support to lean on For one to whom Thou Thyself Art the most dear In the whole world!” ( Apne Bachon kee Aameen ) 3