Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 172
172 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Forgiveness and Pardon The Promised Messiah as gave some mail to his servant Hamid Ali ra to take to the post office. Hamid Ali ra misplaced this post. After a week’s time, when the post was found laying in a heap of refuse and waste, the Promised Messiah as called Hamid Ali ra , showed him the post and in a most gentle manner said: “Hamid Ali, you have become quite forgetful. You should do your work carefully. ” A Dishonour to the Faith The Promised Messiah as could not bear to see the sacred things of Allah dishon- oured. In this relation, once the Promised Messiah as said: “It would be easier for me to see my property destroyed and my children cut to pieces before my eyes, than to see the Faith dishonoured and seen with contempt, and then for me to do nothing. ” The Concealing of Virtue On hearing the views of certain friends in relation to various expenses, the Prom- ised Messiah as said: “Allah the Exalted knows well that I possess such tolerance as far as food is concerned that I can very easily eat twice a day on one paisa alone. Once, I was intrigued at heart to see the extent to which a human being can bear hunger. To test this, I ate nothing for six months—I would have a morsel or two every now and then. After six months, I estimated that I could extend this state of affairs to even six years. During this time, I continuously received my meals from home twice a day but I desired to keep this state of mine a secret. The difficulty that I bore in order to keep this secret was a burden that perhaps others could not bear due to hunger; I would distribute those two meals to two or three people in need. In this state, I would offer my five daily prayers in the mosque and none of the people who knew me could tell by any signs that I was eating nothing. ” Appropriate Faculties The Promised Messiah as states: “Whenever God Almighty has raised a person for a certain task, He has granted them with the appropriate faculties in order to pre- pare them and make available to them the necessary ingredients that enable the fulfilment of the goal or task at hand. Those people who do not truly possess the