Perseverance — Page 183
PART III – My Return to the United States 183 DEATH OF MY SON IN PAKISTAN I was informed by my wife, Sara Qudsia, that my eldest son, Mur i d Ahmad, passed away in Pakistan on September 28, 1969. He was 17 years old. Inn a Lill a hi wa inn a Ilayhi r a ji‘ ū n [Arabic: To Allah we belong, and to Him we return ]. This was a very sad time for me. I was already enduring the undue hardship of being separated from my family. I was unaware that Mur i d was sick and when I received news that he had passed, I was unable to go to Pakistan to attend his funeral. I was sent the following picture of Mur i d, his head in the hands of my father-in-law (Muhammad Ibrah i m Khal i l), and Ma h m u d, my other son (i. e. , Mur i d’s brother), on the left side of the picture.