Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 34
34 “I desire to make it plain to all Muslims, Christians, and Hindus, and Aryas, that in the whole world I look upon no one as an enemy. For all mankind I have love of the same kind as a kind and loving mother has for all her children, in fact even more than that. I am enemy only of those falsa beliefs which are an outrage against Truth. Sympathy for all mankind I look upon as a moral obligation, a duty; and my principle is to abhor all falsehood, shirk, ( i. e. setting up gods with God) oppression, evil and immorality. ” ( Arbaeen, No. 1, page 2 ) 2 We should carefully remember that this claim was not a mere empty boast; it is a fact that every moment of the Promised Messiah’s life was spent for the benefit of mankind, and those around him wondered and marveled at the excellence and height of his morals that even his worst enemies he loved as a mother loves children. For instance, Hazrat Maulvi Abdul Karim, who was a man of learning and fine perception and had his residence in a portion of the home of the Promised Messiah, related that once during the days when plaque was raging all over the country, claiming thousands of victims, he once heard the Promised Messiah praying most fervently in absolute privacy. Writes Maulvi Abdul Karim: “During the time The Promised Messiah was offering this prayer, there was such fire and pain and distress in his voice as to make the heart of anyone who heard melt in such torture of mine as if a woman were crying in the throes of delivery. On trying to catch the words, I found he was praying for mankind to be delivered from the curse of the raging plague, and he was saying: “O God, if all these people perish in the chastisement of this plague, then who would be left to worship Thee. ” ( Seerat Masih-i-Mauood, Shamail-o-Akhlaq Part III, by Sh. Yaqoob Ali Irfani) One needs to pause here for a moment and to reflect. A scourge was on the people of their transgressions and denial of the Reformer from Allah- a scourge