The students of Madrassa Talim-ul-Islam in Qadian had a cricket match. Some of the elders came to the field in order to encourage the students. In a child’s innocence, one of the sons of the Promised Messiah (as) said: “Father, why did you not go to the cricket match?” The Promised Messiah (as) was engaged in writing his commentary on Surah Fatihah at the time. He said: “The others will play their match and return to their homes, but the cricket that I am playing at the moment will last until the end of time.”1
1 Al-Hakam, vol. 5, no. 7, dated 24 February 1901, p. 10