Some Hidden Pearls — Page 71
shall continue to satisfy the spiritual and moral needs of a progressive humanity, for the people everywhere, at all times to come. It is most curious, to begin with, that Hazrat Ahmad's darsi (formal and regular) knowledge of this vast language was apparently, very limited and elementary. The Promised Messiah himself has written that his personal knowledge was but elementary and poor merely confined to 'shud and buď (Najmul. Huda p. 19). But from the moment Allah's grace and mercy selected him for the universal mission of a world Teacher, the Divine. Eye having seen in his heart and mind the seed which qualified him for this onerous task, from that moment onward, among other special and specific qualities with which. Allah blessed him, one was an extraordinary and miraculous knowledge of and command over the Arabic language, so that he should be able properly to discharge the duty of putting up before the world a worthy exposition of the Holy Book. In his later years, the Promised Messiah 71