The Life of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad — Page 12
safety reasons, migrated to India in the year 1520. He was very warmly welcomed by the ruling dynasty who granted him vast tracts of land comprising 86 villages. Here Mirza Hadi Beg laid the foundation of a model Islamic state. The family remained. master of these lands until 1802, when, during the time of the. Promised Messiah's grandfather, Mirza Ata Muhammad, the. Sikhs took possession of his lands and he had to take refuge in. Kapoorthala State. Later when Maharaja Ranjit Singh gained control of the Punjab, he restored a portion of Mirza Ata. Muhammad's estate and he came back to live in Qadian. His son Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, the father of the Promised Messiah was the owner of five villages. . His Birth. The Promised Messiah was born on Friday the 13th. February, 1835 in the early hours of the morning as one of the twins. This had been predicted by the Muslim saint, Mohiyu. Din Ibn-i-Arabi. . Early Life and Visions. On many occasions the Promised Messiah had related facts about his early life. He once said that, in his early boyhood, he had made the mosque a second home where he used to spend most of his time in the company of good and righteous men. . Love of God was then his most valuable possession. and, devotion to God, his most lovable companion. Being in the world, he lived out of it and yet considered mankind in general as his own family. . A saintly person of high repute, Maulvi Ghulam Rasool by name, on seeing the Hazrat when he was still a small boy, had said spontaneously that if a prophet had been destined for this age that would certainly be this boy. As was vogue in those days, the Hazrat started his first lessons in learning the Holy. Quran at the age of six years. Besides lessons in Islam, he was taught some very elementary books in the Persian language. His first tutor was a Hanifite, Maulvi Fazl-i-Ilahi by name. . When 12. MUSLIM HERALD