Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 8
8 4 The Love of God lay so deeply soaked into the heart and being of the Promised Messiah, and dominated his mind to such an extent that, as against it, every other emotion and feeling was almost as non-existent, so that he was a perfect embodiment of the following Hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad: “All the love and hate and dislike of a True Believer is subject to his desire to win the love of God and to avoid everything which Allah does not approve of. ” (Abu Daood and Musnad Ahmad) In a poem written in Persian, the Promised Messiah says: “Everything Thou hast in thy mind, Every thought thou nourisheth Other than that of God, And of winning His approbation. Is an Idol which thou worshippeth, O thou weak of Faith! Beware of these hidden Idols; Guard well thy heart, And keep it always Out of their reach. ” ( Braheen-e-Ahmadiyyat, Part II ) 5 It is a very interesting and arresting fact that just when the Promised Messiah turned his back completely upon this world, for the sake of Allah, Allah began to rain down His blessings upon him, both in the worldly sake, as well as the spiritual. Rather, it should be said that Allah put both the worlds into his lap. But in the eyes of the Promised Messiah all other blessings were secondary, and almost as nil, when compared with his desire to win the Love of god and nearness to Him. Addressing Allah, he says in one place: “O Thou, for whom