Some Hidden Pearls — Page 93
Hazrat Ahmad's condition during this time was one which cannot be described in words. . His manner of remoteness, of complete seclusion from this world, into the arms of. Allah of confidence and reliance in God; ; of withdrawal into another world; and his look of absorption in things of a higher life was such that it is not possible for human language to portray it adequately in words. . When the address was over, which, since, has been embodied in the first 38 pages of Khutba Ilhamia, in response to a request from the audience, Maulvi Abdul. Karim gave its translation in Urdu. During this recital of the translation, at one sentence the Promised Messiah rose from his chair and threw his forehead on the ground in sajda (prostration), in response to some inner impulse called forth by the passage in question, or, may be, in obedience to a divine hint, to that effect, dropped into his heart by Allah; and the entire audience, too, did the same. (Ashaab-i-Ahmad, Vol. IX, page 267) 93