Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 12
12 AHMADIYY AT life in the pursuit of a useless worldly objective. On one occasion he related that he had seen the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, in his dream proceeding with great dignity towards my father's house like a mighty monarch. My father advanced towards him to welcome him. When he arrived near him he thought he should make a present to him and put his hand in his pocket where he found only one rupee and looking closely discovered that it was a false coin. Perceiving this, my father's eyes became wet and he woke up. He interpreted the dream as meaning that love of God and of the Holy Prophet mixed with wordly ambitions was like a false coin. In his old age my father's grief and sorrow had multiplied manifold. Towards the end of his life he had a mosque constructed in the middle of the town which is the principal mosque in the place and he directed that he should be buried in a corner of the mosque so that he should constantly hear the Word of God Almighty being glorified, -which might perchance become the means of his procuring forgiveness. It so happened that when the construction of the mosque was almost completed my father died of dysentery after a few days' illness and was buried in a corner of the mosque which he had himself specified. May Allah have mercy on him and admit him to paradise. Amen. He was 80 or 85 years of age. His sorrow over wasting his life in the pursuit of the world still affects me painfully and I realize that everyone who seeks the world must carry this sorrow with him. Let him who seeks understanding understand this [Kitabul Bariyyah, pp. 184-9, foot- note]. . Soon after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's return to Qadian an incident took place which illustrates his perfect intellectual integrity. It so happened that about that time Maulvi Muhammad Husain of Batala returned to his native town, having qualified as a Maulvi after his theological studies in Delhi. He belonged to the Ahle Hadees sect and his views were not approved by a majority of his fellow citizens who were of the Hanafi persuasion. They sent one of their number to Qadian to convey to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad their earnest request that he might go to Batala and hold a public discus-.