Tadhkirah — Page 450
1900 January 5, 1900 One of my cousins, of the name Im a m-ud-D i n, was much opposed to me. He created a difficult problem for us. He built a wall in front of our house at such a place that our way to the mosque was blocked and my visitors and guests, who used to come to see me in my sitting room or came to the mosque were obstructed, and my Jam a ‘at and I were put to great trouble. In a sense, we were besieged. We were, thus, compelled to go to the Civil Court to obtain relief and filed a suit in the court of Munsh i Khud a Bakhsh, District Judge. After the suit had been filed we discovered that it would be virtually impossible to win this case. The difficulties in our way were that the record of a previous case disclosed that the land on which the wall had been erected had been in the possession of Im a m-ud-D i n, the defendant, for a long time. Actually, this piece of land had belonged to a co-sharer of the name of Ghul a m Jil a n i but it had gone out of his possession and he had sued Im a m-ud- D i n for recovery of possession in the civil court at Gurdaspur. That suit was dismissed on account of the adverse possession of Im a m-ud-D i n who had since continued in possession of the land… In view of these severe problems, our lawyer, Khw a jah Kam a l-ud-D i n, had also advised us that we should settle the matter by a compromise. That is to say, we might persuade Im a m-ud-D i n to remove the wall in return for some monetary compensation. I had agreed reluctantly to adopt this suggestion, but he [Im a m-ud-D i n] was not a man who could be persuaded. He was personally hostile to me.