Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 126
126 and used to accept bribes. On receiving this reply I went to the mosque and enquired from the mullah what was meant by the repentance of Zachari as. The mullah and the other people in the mosque were surprised to see a vicious man like me in the mosque and the mullah was unable to answer my question. Then I enquired from Maulaw i Fateh D i n of Dharamkot, who was an Ahmadi, and he told me that the repentance of Zachari as meant that I should renounce my evil course of life, should give up bribe-taking, should be regular in my prayers, observe fasts, and should attend the mosque fre- quently. Accordingly I entirely changed my way of living. I gave up liquor, stopped taking bribes and became regular in my prayers and fasting. Four or five months later, when I entered my house one day I found my eldest wife in tears. On enquiring from her the cause of her distress she told me that I had already had, besides her, two other wives, as she had borne me no children, and that a fresh ca- lamity had now befallen her, namely that her monthly courses had ceased and that there was now left no hope of her ever bearing a child. Her brother used in those days to be a sub-inspector of police at Amritsar, and she asked me to send her to her brother to obtain medical advice. I advised her, however, to consult the local midwife. She did so and asked the midwife to treat her. The midwife examined her and told her that she would have nothing to do with her as in her opinion God had made a mistake in her case (meaning that she had