Some Hidden Pearls — Page 106
with the Promised Messiah, the time happened to come when Ahmad had to have hena applied to his hair, and an attendant began to do so. It so happend that at the same time an Arya Samajist visitor also arrived to see Hazrat Ahmad. This man was highly educated, with a University degree of Master of Arts, very intelligent and smart. He put forward some objections against Islam whereupon Hazrat. Ahmad asked Dr. Sadiq Ali to reply to the points raised by the Arya visitor, while he finished with this business of having the hena applied to his hair. . Thereupon Dr. Sadiq Ali made a suitable reply, which, however, failed to satisfy the questioner, who once more pressed his points with such vigour that Dr. Sadiq. Ali was overawed and silenced. . At this point, however, the Promised. Messiah intervened with great force and vigour, since he could not bear to see that the spokesman of Islam should be silenced. . So he suspended and postponed for the time the application of hena and made a 106