The Devotion of Life — Page 475
475 while we were at a totally unknown place. With these thoughts, I felt like weeping. So I prostrated, prayed and wept much, begging God Almighty for help. It is a strange way of God Almighty that after the prayer, when I opened the door of the mosque to clean my nose, I saw that a strange man was standing at the door carrying a tray full of freshly cooked hot bread and Halwa in one hand and a bowl containing hot meat curry in the other hand. I was astonished to see the man and wondered how come the man was standing there with food at 2 a. m. at night. Anyhow, I asked the man, “Whom do you want to see?” He replied that he wanted to see me and told me to take the dishes of food. I asked the man, “Where should I keep the dishes after eating the food?” The man told me to keep them anywhere in the mosque. I came inside the mosque and gave the food to Mian Sahib to eat, and this made him feel much better. He ate the food till he was satiated, and still there was enough food left for another person. The other traveller beside us, who was lying in the mosque, told us that he had not eaten anything. Thus, the food was given to him also to eat. When he finished eating and had been fully satiated, we left the dishes inside the mosque, bolted the mosque door from the inside and went to sleep. Upon waking up in the morning, we saw that the door inside the mosque was still bolted. The other traveller was fast asleep, but the dishes were gone. It is absolutely true what God Almighty has told to the Promised Messiah as , ‘If the entire world abandons you, I will help from the earth or the Heaven. ’ ” (Hayat-e-Qudsi, Part 1, pp 41-43)