The Devotion of Life — Page 491
491 See how God Almighty protected His humble servants? See how He helped them and how He guided them to the right direction? When we reached the bridge, the sun was about to rise. We offered the Fajr Prayer and early in the morning arrived in Farrukh Abad. Myself, Brother Muhammad Yamin and Mahasha Muhammad Umar Sahib were witnesses to this incident and state under oath that it happened exactly as described here. ” (Meri Kahani, Autobiography of Hadrat Master Muhammad Shafi Aslam, pp 70-71) The Gun Did Not Fire Hadrat Maulvi Abul Ata Jalundhari Sahib ra relates: “Once, I, along with an Ahmadi friend were returning to Kababir after conducting a preaching programme. We were passing through a Jungle when we sensed that something was stirring in the shrubs. We thought it to be some animal and did not pay much attention to the incident. When we had travelled a little farther, we heard two shots of gunfire. Again, we considered it also to be some kind of random occurrence and did not pay much attention to it. It seemed to be an insignificant incident and we forgot all about it. However, what I learned later on clearly established that our journey may in fact have been near-fatal though we passed through safely with the help and protection of God Almighty.