Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 34
34 AHMADIYY AT that God Almighty desired him to arrange a second marriage which would carry Divine blessings with itself. Despite his own disinclination towards marriage and the state of his health and his somewhat advanced age, he bowed to the Divine will and it so happened that by the sheer grace of God his second marriage was celebrated on 17 November 1884 with a young lady of a noble Syed family of Delhi whose name was NusratJahan Begum (meaning the lady who helps the whole world). Her father's name was Mir Nasir Nawab Sahib, the meaning of Nasir Nawab being the Prince helper. Both names were of very good augury, as they indicated that the marriage would prove a source of Divine help and blessings. Concerning this marriage, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote several years later as follows: Approximately sixteen years ago I informed some of those people who were in touch with me that God had revealed to me that He would arrange for my marriage in a noble Syed family and that He would bless this marriage and would make it fruitful. This had been conveyed to me at a time when I suffered from certain disorders and had become physically very weak and infirm. I had only a short while before recovered frqm tuberculosis. On account of the retired life that I led my mind shrank from undertaking the responsibilities of married life. In this pitiful condition I received a revelation [Persian:] 'I shall provide all that may be needed in respect of your marriage. ' I call to witness Him in Whose hand is my life, that in accord with His promises He relieved me after this marriage from every burden relating to it and provided me with great comfort. No father provides for his son as He provided for me. No mother takes s. uch good care of her child as He tOok of me. A long time before this marriage He had promised me in a revelation [Arabic] which was mentioned in Braheen Ahmadiyya: '0 Ahmad, dwell thou and thy wife in paradise'; and He fulfilled this promise to the utmost. He did not let me worry in the least concerning the means of my subsistence, nor did He let me suffer any anxiety about my household affairs. As my heart and brain had become weak in consequence of the tWo disorders, namely diabetes and migraine, from which I suf-