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224 m osque is built here , then around twelve to thirteen thousand people will be able to pray in th at m osque. No w, behold! This is the great favor of God Almighty , as only four to five hundred people could pray in the previous m osque. T hen the terrace was built so that more people could pray in the m osque. Now the land bought for the m osque is five k anal. One k anal consists of five thousand four hundred and forty - five feet. So , this place is twenty - seven thousand two hundred and twenty feet. A nd one man can pray in nine feet, and in this way, this m osque is large enough for three thousand people. If we can get the adjacent plot of twenty - one k anal , then that would be five times more than this land. This is Al - Kauthar which God Almighty has granted to Jama ‘ at. O nce the circumstances were that the family of Mian Chiraghudin wer e the only Ahmadi s and now today , the Lahore Jama ‘ at consists of thousands of people and instead of one, two m osque s have been built. This is a miracle that you are witnessing with your own eyes. No matter how oth er people may laugh at you , but every woman among you can claim that I myself have seen this miracle of the Promised Messiah as ; t hat there was a time when there w ere no Ahmadis or only one or two in our region, but now there are thousands of them in that area. In the times of the Promised Messiah as , there was a man named Pira who was a simpleton. He lived with the Promised Messiah as , who used to provide him with food. The Promised Messiah as sometimes would send Pira to Batala to collect postal packages. Maulawi Muhammad Hussain Batalwi had a habit of going daily to the Batala Station a nd if he found someone who said he was going to Qadian , he would pester them and like the M eccan opponents he would tell them that he was a childhood friend of Mirza Sahib and he would say, ‘ You should ask me what the truth i s, for Mirza Sahi b is simply running a shop. If you w ish to save your faith , then go back. You will find nothing but disbelief and lies. ’ One day as usual Maulawi Sahib went to the station , b ut coincidently found no one was going to Qadian. Pira had gone to redeem the bill of sale. He was sitting there when Maulawi Sahib approached him. When Pira came back [to Qadian], he relayed that he was waiting for the bill of sale when Maulawi Mohammad Husain Batalwi approached him and asked him , “Pira, tell me. What do you see in Qadian that you are living there? Your faith is being destroyed for no reason. ”