Some Hidden Pearls — Page 97
passed the book to the man, sure that this was the passage required. (Siratul, Mahdi, Part II Riwayat 306). My dear friends, let us let us pause here for a moment, and think how obvious, how extraordinary, how miraculous was the divine help and succour with which the. Promised Messiah was blessed. blessed. In the course of discussion with an obstinate opponent, when it looked that he might have a chance to humiliate the Promised Messiah, through his momentary inability to remember with precision a particular reference, like a faithful and constant friend, Allah came to his rescue through some peculiar power of an Unseen Hand; the pages of the book appeared to Ahmad as absolutely blank, until he came to a particular place, where the required passage was to be found, and there it appeared quite clearly before Ahmad's eyes. Evidently, this must have happened in that peculiar state of the mind called kashf, which must have come on the Promised Messiah when his opponent insisted on immediate production 97