Life of The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 4
4 Sialkot for four years upon his father’s instructions and helped litigate cases to regain these lost properties. During his childhood, the Promised Messiah as spent most of his time worshipping God. Due to this, his father would call him a masee- tarh, or one who spends most of his time in a mosque. The Promised Messiah’s father was worried about his son’s future, and wanted him to take an interest in worldly affairs. But as he neared the end of his life, he realized that the Promised Messiah’s attitude was correct. The Promised Messiah as states that his father, Mirza Ghulam Murtaza , would often recite a poetic verse of the grandfather of the Promised Messiah as, a line of which was: My destiny laughs at me whenever I embark upon a plan to do something! So Mirza Ghulam Murtaza bought an expensive piece of land, upon which he built a large mosque—known today as the Aqsa Mosque of Qadian; Minaratul-Masih * is located in the same compound. In his * Minaratul-Masih (the Minaret of the Messiah) is a white minaret beside the Aqsa Mosque in Qadian. The Promised Messiah as constructed this minaret under divine instruction to partly fulfil a prophecy of the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as.