Life of Ahmad — Page 175
as CHRISTIANS TAKE UP ARMS 175 Hoshiarpur, without giving full details. It was confirmed later by repeated revelations. I did not know at all up till now as to where and into which caste this marriage would take place. Now when I attended to your case for a few days, it was clearly revealed that you deserved favour and kindness. God does not wish to show you favour and kindness only, He also wishes to reestablish all the broken relationships through this new connection. Therefore, along with hope, in case of carelessness this Divine command contains an element of fear also. If this marriage does not take place, then it will not at all be blissful for you to marry her to anyone else. The end in that case will be pain, suffering and death. This much I have informed you briefly for the present. But instead of giving further details I request you most sympathetically and sincerely not to object to the proposal and reject it. You know God has given me of everything and there is nothing lacking. But as there has been disintegration and disunion in our small family and at the same time the love of religion has gone cold, therefore God wishes to link all these scattered leaves together with the same string; and God has declared you to be that link. So I am making this proposal solely in obedience to the Divine will. Most respectfully I request you for the hand of your eldest