My Mother — Page 46
46 My father decided to wind up his practice, and in order to continue to assist him in the process, I arranged to spend half of every week at Sialkot till he moved to Qadian and dedicated himself to the service of the Faith. made her residence in the ancestral home at Daska, but divided her time between Qadian, Lahore, and Daska. She felt that her duties and obliga- tions as chatelaine demanded that she should spend the greater part of her time at Daska. It was mainly through her efforts that an Ahmadiyyah Community was established at Daska. My father also spent the month of Ramadan at Daska. There was little active opposition to the Movement in Daska. The chief obstacle was indifference to spiritual values. ’s example and her benevolence towards everyone helped to rouse interest in the Movement. The hereditary mullah, an ignorant bigot, felt it his duty to misrepresent the Movement, its doctrines, and teachings, but he was not thereby excluded from the scope of her sympathy and charity. On one occasion, the family steward finding her occupied in preparing children’s garments, ventured to enquire for whom were they meant. ‘They are for the mullah’s grandchildren’, was her reply. ‘Indeed? But surely you know the mullah is our enemy. ’ ‘God is my Friend, and I have no enemy. How can I tolerate that these poor children should run about half naked in their tat- tered rags? When these clothes are ready you will deliver them to the mullah. But take them over at night, so that the mullah is not shamed at accepting charity from us. ’ A non-Ahmadi peasant’s cattle were attached by his creditor, a Hindu moneylender, in execution of a court decree. Among the attached cattle was a calf, the favourite of the peasant’s young son.