Scattered Pearls — Page 60
50 59 28. Here I recall another incident which illustrates the reliance on and confidence in Allah which the Promised. Messiah displayed throughout his life. This same Hazrat. Maulvee Abdul Kareem wrote once in a letter that once when the topic under discussion was reliance on God, the. Promised Messiah said: "In this respect I find myself in a peculiar state of mind. When the season is particularly hot and suffocating, people hope and trust from experience that the rains will come soon. Similarly when I find my cash box empty, I feel every confidence in Allah that it would now be filled and that is actually how it turns out to be. And then the Promised. Messiah went on oath to testify to the fact that whenever his pocket happened to be empty, the peculiar joy and ecstacy he felt in leaving everything to God on such occassions was most indescribable; and that this state of the mind was far more reassuring than would be possible with one's pockets full. " (Alhakam, Vol. III, No. 34, page 4 & 5, as quoted in Malfoozaat, Vol. I). The pockets of the Ahl-i-Faqr are usually empty, but one needs to pause and ponder well over what the Promised. Messiah has said in this respect in regard to himself. Just as a farmer, on innumerable occassions who has irrigated his fields from a well, feels sure that when the time comes for the water in the well to reach the point of exhaustion, more water will flow out from the springs hidden at the bottom, to make the well replete again, similarly was the heart of the Promised Messiah brimful of confidence that