Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 69
20. Other righteous people of God must have seen Paradise, in accordance with the powers of their soul; but the Paradise visualizd by the Promised Messiah, the Founder of the. Ahmadiyya Movement, was concentrated solely in the Holy Being of Almighty God Himself. He had gone so deep, and had drunk in the love of God, that he had risen far above considerations of reward and punishment, as a star in the heavens stands above the earth. Some instances of the love of God on the part of the Promised Messiah I have already referred to on previous occasions, in my previous Paper entitled seerat Tayyiba, in which this very point formed the pivot of my entire approach. Indeed it appeared, so to say, that the Promised Messiah's being was like a piece of sponge, so full of the love of God that there was no room left in it for anything else. Drunk with this love, he says in one place in the course of his writings: “Our Paradise is our God, and all our sublime enjoyments lie in Him, for we have seen Him, and every kind of beauty we 69