Life of Ahmad — Page 46
EARLY LIFE as 46 disgusted with its ways. He never failed, therefore, to perform his sincerest and truest devotions to God. However tired and busy he might be, he would never miss communion with God at the time of prayer. In an Indian court parties to a suit have often to wait a long time outside the court before the judge summons them to his presence through a crier, who shouts out the name of the parties. No definite time of day is fixed for the hearing of particular cases. Many a time, therefore, it happened that Ahmad as was busy offering prayers at the time when the court summoned him to its presence; and on several occasions the proceedings began and ended in his favour before he could make his appearance in court. Ahmad as once went to Lahore in connection with an important law suit and stayed there with Sayyid Muhammad Ali Shah, a resident of Qadian, who in those days lived at Lahore and worked in the forest department. A servant of the host used to bring food to Ahmad as in the chief court, where he had to remain in connection with the law suit. One day he told the servant to return home with the food, saying that he would have it at home. After a while Ahmad as arrived with a cheerful countenance and appeared to be in very good spirits. When he was asked whether he had won the case, he replied that he had lost it. People are generally grieved and shocked when they lose an important case. The result of this case was a bitter disappointment to his father and a great misfortune to the family. Grief and sorrow are, however, of no avail