Life of Ahmad — Page 722
722 Chapter 69 A SERMON REVEALED Eid ul-Adha came off on April 13th, 1900. About 300 followers of Ahmad as gathered at Qadian on this occasion from Sialkot, Amritsar, Batala, Lahore Wazirabad, Jammu, Peshawar, Gujrat, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bombay, Sanaur and Lucknow etc. Early in the morning, on the day of the ‘Araf a t, Ahmad as sent a note to Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra saying that all those present at Qadian should write their names and places of residence and send them on to Ahmad as who intended to spend the day and a part of the coming night in prayers for them. The Maulaw i Sahib informed everybody of this and sent in a list of names to Ahmad as , who spent all the time in special prayers. Early next morning Maulaw i Abdul Kar i m ra saw Ahmad as and requested him to address the gathering that day. Ahmad as replied: 'God has commanded me last night to do so in Arabic. ' The Masjid Aq sa had recently been extended so it was decided to offer the Eid prayers in that mosque.