Life of Ahmad — Page 595
595 CHAPTER 62 INCOME TAX CASE The enemies of Ahmad as were always thinking out new ways and means of vexing and injuring him. Now they reported against him to the effect that he was not paying income tax to the Government in spite of the fact that he was liable to be assessed for it. The officer in charge of the department arbitrarily fixed his annual income at Rs. 7,200 and assessed Rs. 167-8 as the amount of the tax due from him for the year under assessment. Ahmad as filed an appeal against the assessment order on 20. 6. 1898. before the Tahsildar of Batala. In August when he was in the Masjid Mub a rak, preparing notes of his annual income and expenditure for the case he saw a vision, sitting there with his friends, in which God informed him that the Hindu Tahsildar who was hearing the case would be soon transferred and that he would be replaced by a Muslim. The transfer was actually made and Miy a Ĕ T a jud D i n of Baghbanpura, Lahore (brother of Miy a Ĕ