Life of Ahmad — Page 75
as AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH 75 was an utterly immoral loafer and attracted round him all the wicked people of the neighbourhood. An A rya, Kishan Singh, used to read medicine with Ahmad as. He came to him and said that the great Mirza, Ahmad’s as father, was dead and that Mirza Ghulam Q a dir, his elder brother, had entered service. Therefore, they could not do anything in the matter and that nothing could be expected of Ahmad as because he never took any interest in such affairs. Thereupon Ahmad as asked Kishan Singh what had happened. He told Ahmad as about the S a dh u and the immoral influence that he was exerting all round. Ahmad as was moved to action and immediately sent for the Chauk i d a r of the village and gave him an order that the S a dh u should leave Qadian immediately. The order was given in such an authoritative and determined tone that no one could gainsay it and the S a dh u had to leave at once. He thus proved that righteousness is power. Ahmad’s as moral standard was lofty. His chief concern in life was spiritual progress. But he was not indifferent to physical cleanliness, which is said to be next to Godliness. In his own person he was scrupulously clean and always set an example to all in this respect. But his example was not always followed. The Indian standard of cleanliness, unfortunately, is not very high. It may be due to poverty and lack of education or it may just be a question of long-established habit. But it is true that in rural areas one sees heap after heap of dirt and filth