Some Hidden Pearls — Page 31
Promised Messiah was waiting on the roof of the Masjid Mubarak in Qadian for the evening meal, to be brought for the guests and himself. At that time an Ahmady friend, Mian Nizam-ud-Din by name, a man poor in worldly wealth, in old and worn out clothes, was sitting with the. Promised Messiah, with four or five other men between him and Hazrat Ahmad. . Then it so happened that a number of more respectable people, in the worldly sense, arrived, and took their seats in between, while Mian Nizam-ud-Din naturally withdrew himself a little farther away. In this way more people continued to arrive, and each time Mian Nizamud-Din would move back a little, reaching thus the fringe of the mosque roof, where the people took off and left their shoes. Now, each time Mian Nizamud-Din slipped back in silent humility and sincerity, his movement was not lost on the Promised Messiah, who saw these things, but said nothing. When the meal came to be served, however, Hazrat Ahmad 31