A Sign of Allah - Chaudhry Muhammad Zafrulla Khan — Page 23
A Sign of Allah 23 humility within the postures of prayer, is prostration. There, God Almighty teaches us: 1 عْلى ْأ عْلى سُبْحَان َ رَبِّي َ ال ْأ سُبْحَان َ رَبِّي َ ال That is to say that you may have humbled yourself in prostra - tion, but you have prostrated towards eminence because you have prostrated before عْلى ْأ رَب ُ ال the Lord of Eminences. Chaudhry Zafrulla Khan was very familiar with both of these points and their hidden secrets through personal expe - rience. Thus, the high statuses and eminences he achieved were both as a result of humility. He had within him an unrelenting fervor for the service of religion and no worldly office could prevent him from carrying out these services. Regardless, he never even considered himself as extraor - dinary because of any worldly office. Worldly offices were always insignificant in his eyes as opposed to the service of faith seeming insignificant. Indeed, this humility that I am referring to is the humility of one well acquainted with Allah. As such, it was in the service of religion where he believed his distinction to be and it was in service of religion where all his nobilities lied. There is a remarkable incident in the history of India when in 1941 Hadrat Zafrulla Khan had been appointed the judge of the Indian Federal Court of Justice, Hadrat Mu s le h Mau‘ u d ra started an initiative calling for people to present 1. Holy is my Lord, the most High [Publisher].