Some Hidden Pearls — Page 132
that where Allah Himself desires to bestow a favour on anyone, there is none and nothing that can create an obstacle in the way. On such occasions the following couplet of the Promised Messiah always comes to my mind: "O Thou, my great Benefactor,. Thy works are indeed marvellous ;. In our blindness, even if we try. To run away from them,. By sheer force, indeed,. Thou doth compel us to receive. Our ordained share of the fruits!". God grant that for ever and ever we should remain firm on the path of righteousness; and when the time should come for us to leave this world, the souls of the Promised Messiah and Hazrat Ummul Mominin should feel happy and proud when they receive us in the life hereafter, that their children after them had not suffered their tie with their Master in Heaven to be sundered. And this is my request to friends as well that where they offer prayers for their own children and dear ones, for 132