Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 81
81 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim these very same people deliver speeches on the life and character of the Prophet of Islam, who was a mercy for all of mankind, they will relate the hadith in which a man urinated in the mosque of the Holy Prophet sa but he said nothing to him, yet they do not practice even a shred of this example in their own lives. I remember well that when Dr Fazl-ud-Din Sahib, Assistant Surgeon, was stationed in Sialkot, on one occasion he travelled to Jammu for some work, and took me along as well. He stayed with Maulvi Nur-ud- Din Sahib. During those days Abdul-Wahid Ghaznavi was there as well. Dr Sahib was wearing a heavy and loose fitting shalwar at the time. We had only just arrived; in fact, we were still standing and were yet to sit down, when Maulvi Ghaznavi Sahib appeared before us. He had a walking stick in his hand. As soon as he approached us, with a frown on his face, he touched Dr Sahib’s shalwar with his walking stick, and in a stern and harsh manner, but in a subdued voice, he said in his Afghani-styled Urdu: “Your trousers are covering your ankles; this is forbidden. ” Dr Sahib was a free-natured man and had no concern or care for such traditions whatsoever. As a result, he was so livid that if it were not for the esteem he had for Maulvi Sahib, he would have done well to explain to Abdul-Wahid the meaning of enjoining good on others. been the passage for invasions of the Indian subcontinent; Ali Masjid is the lowest point of the Khyber Pass. [Publisher]