LessOns FROM AND A Four Cats Bird

It was a Sunday afternoon and Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah as was at home, albeit worried, as his friend and companion, Hazrat Seth Allah Rakhkha Abdul Rahman ra of Madras, was faced with a difficult problem.

That day, on 29th June 1902, an interesting incident unfolded before the Promised Messiah as at his house. It was so interesting, in fact, that the next day, Hazooras narrated the whole story in a letter to his friend. Hazooras wrote:

“I have four [free-roaming] cats in my house; a mother and three daughters, that are also young and strong. Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting alone in the hallway when a bird came and sat in front of my door. The big cat immediately pounced on the bird and seized the bird’s head in its mouth.

“Then another cat came, snatched the bird from the first one and took its head in its mouth and dragged it on the ground so hard that I could not watch out of pity [for the bird] and turned the other way.

“Then I saw the third cat take the bird’s head in its mouth and at that time I thought that [its] head had probably been devoured. Meanwhile, the fourth cat took the bird and dragged it to the ground.

“At this point, I was sure that the bird was dead and its head had been eaten. The bird fell several times while it was being dragged. Then one of the cats, wishing to partake of the bird’s flesh, pulled it towards itself, perhaps so that half [of the bird] might go to the other cat and a half to it.