An Unparalleled Example of Patience

The exemplary patience of Hazrat Umm-ul-Mo’minin(ra) [wife of the Promised Messiah(as)] is matchless. During the last moments of the life of the Promised Messiah(as), unlike worldly women who scream, lament and utter words of impatience, Hazrat Umm-ul-Mo’minin(ra) demonstrated a pure example of supplicating to Allah the Almighty alone and prostrating before Him with absolute humility.

When during the last moments surah Yasin was recited and the pure and blessed spirit of the Promised Messiah(as) departed from this world and met its Beloved Maker, Hazrat Umm-ul-Mo’minin(ra) simply said:1

and was silent without crying or wailing. Indoors, some ladies started crying. She told them off firmly that the deceased was her husband and she did not cry, then who were they to cry!

This pure model of patience and resolve of a lady, who was nurtured in elegance and had just lost a husband who was a spiritual king and who cared deeply for her, was a tremendous miracle. (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, vol. 6, p. 547, new edition)

She also counseled her children not to think that their father had not left them anything, rather he had left them a great treasure of prayers which would continue to benefit them at the right time.


1 To Allah we belong and to Him shall we return.