The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 201
Miscellaneous Signs 201 to the effect that Şiddīq Hasan Khan's title of 'Nawab' would be restored. They understood that what he had said was no more than a customary religious belief, and that he did not mean to be seditious. 69 [Haqiqat-ul-Waḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, pp. 467-470]. It so happened in the year 1900 that one of my paternal cousins, Imam-ud-Din, who was bitterly opposed to me, created a great difficulty for us by building a wall across the front of our house. The wall stood in such a place that it blocked our access to the mosque and also stopped visitors from coming to see me in my sitting room or in the mosque. Thus me and my. Jama'at were put in a great deal of trouble and we felt besieged. We were therefore compelled to go to the. Civil Court to obtain relief, and we filed a suit in the court of Munshi Khudā Bakhsh, District Judge. After we had filed the suit, we learnt that the case could not be won because it was evident from a previous decree that Imam-ud-Din the defendant had long been the owner of the land on which the wall had been erected. . This piece of land had belonged to a co-sharer by the name of Ghulam Jilānī but it had gone out of his possession and he had sued Imam-ud-Din for recovery of possession in the Civil Court at Gurdaspur. This suit was dismissed on the basis of evidence that the opponent was the owner of the land. And Imam-ud-Din 69 This misfortune encountered by Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan was the result of a prophecy of mine, which is recorded in Brāhīn-eAhmadiyya. He had torn up this book of mine and sent it back to me. I had then prayed that his reputation might be torn apart. And so it came to pass. [Author]