Life of The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 29
29 There was a bald man and a blind man. An angel of God Almighty came to the bald man and asked him what he desired. The bald man wanted wealth and hair on his head. So the angel passed his hand over the bald man’s head, and with God’s grace he grew hair and also gained wealth and servants. Then the angel went to the blind man and asked him the same question. The blind man asked for his vision to be restored, and also for wealth so that he would not be dependent on oth- ers. When the angel passed his hand over the blind man’s eyes, his eyesight returned and he too gained a lot of wealth. Later Allah, the Almighty, sent the same angel disguised as a beggar to test the bald man. When the beggar asked the bald man for alms, he scolded the beggar harshly and said that there were many like him who roamed about begging. The angel passed his hand over the bald man’s head. As a result, he lost both his hair and his wealth! Then the same angel visited the man who had been blind but could now see and was very rich. Disguised as a beggar, the angel asked him for alms. The man said that everything had been given to him by Allah, the