Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 174
Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih and His Four Loves 173 Once he was free from service, he came to Lahore for a very brief visit and an overpowering urge took him to Qadian. After concluding the coveted meeting with his master, he was about to seek permission to return to Bhera. Thereupon, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as made an inquiry, "Maulavi Sahib, are you free now?" Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra responded dutifully, "Yes Hudhoor," and immediately he felt a pressure from within him, which prevented him to seek leave. After a couple of days on the suggestion of his master, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra sent for his wife, who arrived in Qadian. Later his second wife also came to Qadian. That is how he became part of Qadian. This event shows how much devotion and love he had entertained for his master. It is seldom that one can find a man who sallies out of his house for a brief visit and then suddenly becomes part of a foreign land and never thinks of his land and home again. Once he was in Qadian, his devotion to his master was so deep that he could not spend a single moment outside the company of his master. "To me the company of my master and my chief was so dear and near that it was impossible to spend a minute without him, and if somebody gave me even one hundred thousand rupees and say spend a day elsewhere, I would prefer one minute of the company with Hadhrat Sahib to that large amount," said Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. Once it happened that a Hindu of Batala took Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra with the permission of Hadhrat Sahib for the treatment of his wife. Hadhrat Sahib, while giving permission, said, "I hope that you will be back by the evening. " Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra with a great deal of difficulty reached Batala by the evening. He saw the patient and prescribed the medicine and took the same yakka (a two-wheel small carriage drawn by a horse) for the return trip. The road was very bad, it was wholly muddy and the yakka could not move further. He left the yakka and started walking on foot. He was barefooted, his feet were wounded by thorns but he kept walking and returned to Qadian by midnight. He met with Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as in the Fajr prayer and told him that he was back in the night and never