Some Hidden Pearls — Page 107
short speech, dealing with the points by the. Arya visitor, in such an impressive manner that the smart Arya Samajist actually and literally fell down before him in an abject. Sajda of adoration. Hazrat Ahmad, however, immediately picked him up from that position, telling that performance of Sajda, or acceptance thereof, was not permissible in Islam for any human being. At this the man obeyed; then, his mind being satisfied with what he had heard from the Promised. Messiah, he folded both his hands, raised them to the forehead, as is the Hindu way for respectful salutation, and walked backward, without turning his back on Hazrat Ahmad, so devoutly respectful had he become after listening to a brief talk from him. Taken in gist, what the Promised Messiah said was almost identical in presentation and argument with what Dr. Sadiq Ali had earlier said on the points involved. But whereas Dr. . Sadiq Ali's speech had fallen flat, although he was a learned man of reputation, the words of the Promised Messiah, full of spiritual significance, carried conviction into 107