Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 209
209 to the upper level, they must bear great inconvenience and go all the way around to come from the opposite side. Due to this, the weak and elderly cannot join me in the morning prayer or for Isha. The guests who come to visit me come with the purpose of learning religion. However, when they are inconvenienced due to this wall, it is I who feels the pain of all their grief. This poses a difficulty in my ability to do the work that I desire. I do not have the words with which to express my grief; my guests are barred on the other side, and I am separated from them. The guests are deprived from the very purpose for which they come and I am unable to perform the work for which I have been sent. During rainy spells, the road becomes completely unusable. I review the proofs and copies from the press myself. Workers must visit me four or five times during the day. However, due to the wall this has not been possible and has proven detrimental; work is delayed as a result. The monthly expenditure of my community kitchen at times reaches 1000 rupees, at other times 1500 rupees, and sometimes it even reaches 2000 rupees, while the running costs of the press is 250 rupees per month. Before this wall was built, I would leave my home to go from the path that is now blocked by the wall. I generally do not pass through the women’s quarters because lady guests stay there. In order to ensure that the privacy of the ladies is not violated in any way, I always come down from the upper floor to leave from the path I have just mentioned. The defendants have harboured enmity against me for the last nineteen or twenty years, more or less. One reason that they harbour enmity against me is because the sister of Mirza Imam-ud-Din married Mirza Akbar Baig, the son of Mirza Azam Baig. Mirza Azam Baig was a purchaser of land in Qadian; he pur- chased the shares of those who had been dispossessed of their lands. Another reason for his enmity—and this being a major factor—is that Mirza Imam-ud-Din writes books against God and His Messenger. As such, he has written the books Deed-e-Haqq, Qissa Har Do Kafir, in which he has branded Muhammad Hussain of Batala and I disbelievers, and Gul-e-Shaquft, among oth- ers. In my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah , I have written about the small mosque (Mubarak Mosque). As such, the small mosque has been mentioned in sub-foot- note no. 4 of the aforementioned book. This book was written in 1880. Moreover, Shahna-e-Haqq is also a book that I have written in refutation of the Aryas; I am p. 191