Some Hidden Pearls — Page 92
66 east, and started his address in Arabic, of which the first sentence was to the following effect: "○ ye servants of God, give thought to the importance of this day of yours, which is the day of the Pilgrimage and the Sacrifices, since, for the people of understanding many wise and beneficent things have been vested in it by God. ”. Bhai Abdul Rahman Qadiani relates that, from the moment the Promised Messiah took his seat on that chair, and started the address, he seemed to have passed completely into some other world. His eyes were almost closed; and his face shone with a radiance, as if Divine Light had completely enveloped him, and made him luminous to an extraordinary extent. It was not possible for anyone to look with concentration at his face; it shone so much as to dazzle the eyes. Apparently his tongue moved, but the general appearance of his unique mode and manner was such as if, rendered powerless in itself, it were moving under the impulse of some hidden, invisible force. Bhai Abdul Rahman relates that 92