Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 40
40 Most old members of the Ahmadiyya Movement know about the two cousins of the Promised Messiah, Mirza Imam Din and Mirza Nizam Din. On account of their irreligious temperaments, and their worldly ways, both were bitterly opposed to the Promised Messiah. In fact, they were really enemies of Islam itself. Simply to annoy the Promised Messiah, they, on one occasion, raised a wall right in the passage to the mosque nearest to his home. This caused a great deal of inconvenience to those desirous of going to the mosque and to those coming to see the Promised Messiah, imposing a serious hardship on the small Ahmadiyya community of Qadian of those days, reducing them virtually to a state tantamount to imprisonment. After taking legal opinion, a case had at last to be instituted at the District Civil Court, and the litigation dragged on for a long time. Eventually, in accordance with glad tidings conveyed to the Promised Messiah in Revelation, the case was won by the Promised Messiah and the wall was demolished by an order of the court. Subsequently, the Promised Messiah’s legal representative took steps, without his approval, or even without informing him to obtain a decree of costs and an order of confiscation of property in execution thereof. Mirza Imam Din and Mirza Nizam Din, who, at the moment, did not happen to have money ready to ward off confiscation of property, approached the Promised Messiah, writing to him in a spirit of extreme humility, and also sent word to him that he should not drag his brothers into such disgrace. When the Promised Messiah came to know of this, he censored his legal representative for taking these steps without his prior approval, and directed that execution of the decree of costs should immediately be stopped; and he also wrote to his cousins giving them the assurance that the execution of the order would be stayed at once, and that all these steps had been taken without obtaining his permission. ( Seerat Masih-i-Mauood, by Irfani pg115- 119) Here I may be pardoned of I pause for a moment and ask friends to think over the matter a little. The bitterness and opposition of the co-relatives of the Promised Messiah had reached the extreme limit. Simply to cause vexation and inconvenience to the Promised Messiah, and to his handful of followers (for they were only a handful in those early days), they prepared a dangerous plan and carried it out. In the course of the proceedings they did their best to obtain a judgment in their own favor by hook or crook. But when they failed utterly in this part of their plan, and when the court awarded costs to the Promised Messiah, they came running to him, asking for mercy. Even though they were aggressor, they complained that an intolerable burden had been thrown on them in the form of the decree of costs. And the Promised Messiah, although he was aggrieved and the