Scattered Pearls — Page 32
31 14. There is a very interesting incident connected with the Kapurthala State. There was a very small, but highly sincere Ahmadiyya community in that town. . This small community was exceedingly devoted to the. Promised Messiah, and the Promised Messiah too had great love for them. As has been the case in some other towns as well, some opponents of the Ahmadiyya. Movement took poassession of the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Kapurthala, and tried to deny access to it to the. Ahmadies. There was a civil suit. While in the court the suit dragged on, members of the Ahmadiyya Jamaa'at of Kapurthala were naturally very anxious and worried over this matter; repeatedly they sent frantic appeals to the Promised Messiah for prayer in this behalf. Touched by the distress of mind of these devoted disciples, the. Promised Messiah on one occasion jeslously remarked in answer to one of these appeals: "Do not worry: if I am truthful in my claim, this mosque must come to you. " (Ashaab-i-Ahmad, Vol. IV). But there was an evil intention in the mind of the judge, and his attitude continued adverse. Till at last on hearing the final arguments he openly declared: "You (Ahmadis) have made a new religion. You will now have to build a new mosque and I will give an award accordingly. " But he had not yet written the judgement which he thought he would do in his court on getting there. Then he took a chair on the veranda of the house in the morning when preparing to go to his office, and asked a servant to help him with his shoes. But the servant had not yet finished lacing them up when the judge was struck down by a sudden heart attack, and was dead in a few moments. When his successor examined the file of this case he found justice on the side of the