The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 15
Family and Personal Background 15. In his old age my father's grief and sorrow multiplied manifold. About six months before, he built a mosque in the middle of the town-which is now the town's main mosque and directed that he should be buried in a corner of that mosque so that he should constantly hear the name of God Almighty being glorified, and this might perchance become the means of procuring forgiveness. It so happened that when the construction of the mosque was almost completed and just a few bricks remained to be laid in the courtyard, my father died of dysentery after a few days illness and was buried in the corner of the mosque which he had specified. اللهم ارحمه و ادخله الجنة 13. He was 80 or 85 years of age when he died. 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. . Early Revelations. I was 34 or 35 years of age when my father died. In a dream, I had been warned that his death was approaching. I was then in Lahore and hastened to. Qādiān. He was suffering from dysentery but I had no apprehension whatsoever that he would die the day after my arrival. In fact, there had been some 13 O Allah, have mercy upon him and usher him into Paradise. Āmīn. [Translator]