Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 340
340 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION 119. [ONE HUNDRED-NINETEENTH] sign—It so happened, in the year 1900, that one of my paternal cousins, Imām-ud-Din, who was bitterly opposed to me, created the nuisance that he built a wall across the front of our house in such a location that the access to the mosque was blocked and the guests who came to see me in my sitting room or came to the mosque were stopped from coming. Thus, my Jama'at and I suffered great hardship as if we were besieged. Left with no other option, we filed a complaint in the Civil Court of Munshi Khudā Bakhsh, District Judge. After the complaint had been filed, we learnt that this case was not winnable. The difficulty in it was that, with regard to the land on which the wall had been erected, it was established by the decree of some earlier time that Imām-ud-Din, the defendant, had long been in possession of it. This piece of land had originally belonged to another co-sharer by the name of Ghulām Jilānī but it had gone out of his possession and he had sued in the Civil Court at Gurdaspur with the plea that Imām- ud-Din was the seizer. That suit was dismissed on the basis of evidence of adverse possession. Since then Imām-ud-Dīn had continued to be in possession of it. Now Imām-ud-Din had erected a wall on the same land claiming that it was his land. Thus, after we had filed the suit, review of an old decree placed such an insoluble problem for us that clearly indicated that our claim would be dismissed, for, as I have mentioned, this old decree established that Imām-ud-Dīn was in possession of that land. In face of this grave diffi- culty, our lawyer, Khwāja Kamāl-ud-Din, had advised us to settle the matter through compromise. That is to say, we should appease Imām- ud-Din by offering him some money. I had reluctantly agreed to this suggestion, but he was not a person who would agree. He harboured a personal grudge against me, and indeed against the faith of Islam itself. He had realized that we had no way to sue him, and therefore became even worse in his mischief. In the end, we resigned the matter to God Almighty. But, as far as we and our