Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page 46

Syed Muhammad Ahmad 46 Because of the height of the trees, it is unlikely that the officers had seen anything drop out of the plane themselves. They must have assumed this to be the case. The khuddam answered that they had nothing with them. Not believing them, the officers conducted a search but could not find anything on their person. After they had left, the khuddam anxiously looked for the streamer which they had clearly seen fall from the sky. They thought it might have landed further away and went ahead in search of it. When the officers were finally out of sight, the khuddam were approached by a young boy of about 10 or 11, dressed in shorts and a dirty shirt. He lifted his shirt, took out the streamer and handed it to them. He told them that the streamer had fallen near him, but because he had seen two officers approaching, he quickly wrapped the streamer around his body and covered it with his shirt. In this way, Huzoor’s important message reached the administration in Qadian. To this day I do not know if that boy was an angel or just a very intelligent child. I have never been able to find out who he was. The third miracle happened a little while after Huzoor’s arrival in Lahore, probably in the third week of September. In those days a convoy of refugees arrived in Lahore from Qadian almost every day and each convoy