The Life of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad — Page 15
The War of the Pen starts. In the year 1872, the Promised Messiah started his crusade of the pen and his articles began to appear in the magazine "Manshoor-i-Muhammadi" from Bangalore, and also other sections of the Muslim press. It was about the year 1873 that he wrote a number of poems that were published under the nomde-plume, “Farrukh'. . The Great Devotion of Fasting. Under Divine direction, the Promised Messiah strove hard in devotion and fasted continuously for nine months. During this period he was led into the spiritual world where he met all the righteous and great prophets of God. He also met Hazrat Ali,. Fatima, Hassan and Hussain. To crown all this he was blessed with the good fortune of meeting the Holy Prophet while he was wide awake. This was the culmination of the spiritual ecstacy granted to him by God. . The beginning of revelations. It was the 3rd day of June in the year 1872 that the father of the Promised Messiah passed away. This was the time when he started receiving revelations in great abundance and it became apparent that God had Himself taken the affairs of his servant (the Promised Messiah) into His own hands. At his father's death, the elder brother of the Hazrat had taken control of all the affairs of the family into his own hands and the Hazrat placed no hindrance in his way. For more than seven years Hazrat Mirza. Ghulam Ahmad lived practically the life of a recluse—a person left entirely uncared for. During this period his zeal for the service of the faith kept on increasing and he occupied himself most diligently in this noble pursuit. This was the time when he had diverted his attention fully to replying to the baseless attacks of the Arya Samaj and exposed to the public eye all the weak points of their faith. . The Baraheen-I-Ahmadiyya. The famous and unparalleled work of the Promised Messiah, known as the BRAHEEN-I-AHMADIYYA was published in the 66 ". JULY/AUGUST 1989 15