Life of Ahmad — Page 22
AHMAD’S as FOREFATHERS as 22 nobody dared look him in the face. Mirza Imam D i n, a nephew of his, once procured Sochet Singh of Bhaini to kill the Mirza Sahib. He has stated that he went on several occasions over a wall with the intention of killing him, but whenever he looked at him he felt afraid and dared not approach him. Mirza Ghulam Murtaza was also a poet. His Takhallu s was Ta h s i n. I give here a few verses composed by him: Mirza Sultan Ahmad has said that once he collected all Mirza Ghulam Murtaza’s poems and sent them to Hafiz Umar Dar a z, Editor of the Punjabi Akhb a r , but unfortunately the latter died soon after and the poems were all lost. Mirza Ghulam Qa dir also was a poet. His Takhallu s was (Maft u n) Mahz u n. The Masjid Aq sa was built by Mirza Ghulam Murtaza. The piece of land on which it stands belonged at that time to the Sikhs, and he bought it at an auction at the then very high cost of Rs. 700. He had made up his mind to buy it at any cost, as he wanted to make amends for the worldly pursuits in which he had spent his life. People taunted him for building such a big mosque while there were no worshippers for it. Little did they know that it was to be crowded with devotees, and that the sincerity with which it was built was to be reflected in the necessity