Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 85
This is a very simple and spontaneous statement, but it throws a very fine and delicate kind of light on the deep feelings of the pure mind with which he came to this world from his heavenly Master. A worldly minded leader would have welcomed this expression of devotion on the part of his followers, he would have taken it as a sign of esteem and reverence. But in the eyes of the Promised. Messiah the important point was not the depth and degree of honour accorded to him: the most important point was that of the dignity of the mission with which he had come from. God. The fact is that in these days, the greater part of humanity have lost their natural spiritual quality; it has come to incline more in the direction of a mere animal existence, smothered in the dark and heavy veils of materialism, the spiritual quality has come to be concealed, as the light of the sun becomes dim at the time of an eclipse. This is the reason why, at the time when he was appointed to his mission, the Promised Messiah received the following Revelation from God: "This Messiah from Us would again revivify the Deen, after it had become weak; and he would re-establish the Islamic Shariyya in the world. ” (Tazkira, page 71 and 659). . Of course the struggle is hard, very hard. . The armies of shirk and kufr are launching 85