Life of The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 5
5 will, Mirza Ghulam Murtaza instructed that he be buried in a cor- ner of this mosque so that he could continue to hear God’s name five times a day. When the Promised Messiah established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, many would deliver dars in the Aqsa Mosque. Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmadra * also completed the reci- tation of the entire Quran there. 1 In this way, Mirza Ghulam Murtaza’s wish was fulfilled. The Promised Messiah as was in Lahore when God informed him through a dream, of his father’s approaching demise. The Promised Messiah as immediately went to Qadian and found his father some- what ill. God then revealed to the Promised Messiah as that his father would pass away after sunset and this is what happened. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Murtaza passed away only a few days after the mosque’s com- pletion at the age of eighty-four. In a brief moment of distress, the Promised Messiah as thought how he would provide for himself as his father, who was his source of income, had now passed away. At that * Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad ra was the eldest surviving son of the Promised Messiah as from his second wife Nusrat Jahan Begum ra. In 1914, at the age of 25, he became the second Khalifah of the Promised Messiah as (Khalifatul-Masih II). He was also the Musleh Mau’ood (the Promised Reformer), whose advent was prophesied by the Promised Messiah as in 1886.