Life of Ahmad — Page 433
as HIS ENEMY DIES CHILDLESS 433 Sa‘dullah was then neither old nor decrepit. He had a wife and also a son, who was 15 or 16 years of age. He lived for about twelve years after Ahmad’s as prophecy but neither he nor his son was vouchsafed further issue. In vain did he entreat God in mourning: At last, disappointed and disgraced, he died of pneumonia and plague in a few hours in the first week of January 1907, at Ludhiana, and thus sealed the truth of Ahmad as , who prospered and grew in success more than ever. Sa‘dullah’s son lived for about 20 years after him; he was married and his wife outlived him but he died without issue, on 12-7-1926 at Koom Kalan (Ludhiana). Thus was fulfilled the mighty prophecy of Ahmad as.