Some Hidden Pearls — Page 41
Call to Prayer. Many mosques had been turned into gurudawaras by the Sikhs, who wielded the political power. In Qadian itself, two former mosques exist even today in the form of gurudawaras. General lawlessness and lack of religious tolerance was at a most painful level. The Promised. Messiah had witnessed all these harrowing scenes with his own eyes, as he grew to manhood. To breathe in an air of peace, after one had passed through the painful experience which had fallen to the lot of the Punjab, was naturally a cause for sincere thanks on the part of all reasonable people; and who could be more grateful than the Promised Messiah, where the situation justly called for thanks to be rendered to anybody?. Secondly, we must not forget that. Hazrat Ahmad was not a political leader. . On the contrary, like Jesus of Nazareth, he had been raised solely for the religious and spiritual regeneration and reformation of the people by peaceful means; and naturally, therefore, he viewed everything 41