Life of Ahmad — Page 724
A SERMON REVEALED as 724 lustre all round, convinced everybody present that the speaker before them was at that time certainly in a different world to theirs. He spoke for more than an hour—repeating a direct revelation from God from beginnig to end. After Ahmad as finished speaking, Maulaw i Abdul Kar i m ra conveyed to the audience, in Urdu, at their request, the sum and substance of that speech. He had not yet finished when Ahmad as , overtaken suddenly by a strong sense of gratitude towards God, fell on his face in Sajdah ; the audience also fell after him immediately into Sajdah. Raising his head he told the people around him that he had just at that moment read the word Mub a rak i. e. 'Congratulations' written in scarlet before him. It was a Kashf culminating the acceptance of his prayers. It is not for me to remark on the excellence, elegance, beauty, and perfection of the Arabic language used in this revealed sermon; all I wish to record here is the fact that it was printed at the D iy a ul Islam Press, Qadian. Ahmad as added later four more chapters to it in Arabic; Persian and Urdu translations were also given underneath the Arabic text, and the book was published in October 1902. A rough rendering of this sermon into English is published in The Review of Religions , from which I give the following excerpts: 'O! Servants of Allah, ponder over this day of yours, the day of Adha (lambs sacrificed in the